Strawberry Pickin'

I have been wanting to take Elizabeth to pick strawberries for awhile now.  However, here in Northern Virginia, the season didn't really hit until this week.  We went to our favorite farm, Butler's Orchard to pick strawberries with Elizabeth.  We go there every year for our pumpkins, but this is the first time we have been for strawberries.

Let me just say, we were totally unprepared for the large (large) number of people out at Butler's Orchard.  This was a highly organized operation that transported thousands of people (easily) through the rows and rows of strawberries.

When we arrived, we park and then followed the signs to purchase our crate.  You could pick from several different sizes.  The strawberries are $2.59/pound.  Then you got in line to ride the tractor pull out to to the strawberry fields.  You could pick strawberries as long (or short) as you wanted and then hop onto the tractor pull back to the parking fields to pay.

Even though we didn't try them out; we noticed huge slides for the kids (kind of like a long slip n slide), a food barn that sold hot dogs and drinks, a playground, and some other farm games for kids.

Here are some pictures from our adventure today:

 Strawberries are this way!

 On the tractor pull (we got a hay ride!)

 Doesn't Elizabeth look thrilled?

 View from the hay ride

All strawberries...

 She is "helping us"pick strawberries...

Picking more strawberries

 Two crates of strawberries

 She loves her Dad!

 So fresh and yummy!

I think Elizabeth had a good time

We had a great time!  I hope you can get some strawberries too.