Gizdich Ranch

We did something fun on Saturday - we picked berries at Gizdich Ranch in Watsonville. I've done this once before with my sisters but this time Greg, Ryan, Claire and friends Abby and Alexa came along.

At first, we pulled into the apple place - a fun place but not the place we needed to be.

This is where we needed to be, just a few streets away from the apple place.

Greg is ready to go with one of the little buckets the Ranch lets patrons use for free. Nice.

The rest of us used bowls from home to carry our harvest.

Ryan working hard at tossing trail mix peanuts at his sister.

First round of picking was for the boysenberries. That's a big berry, don't you think? I did think until I kept picking and realized boysenberries are just really big.

This is our first round - and yes, that is one of those huge mixing bowls and the other bowls behind it are from our pickers as well but we did let Abby and Alexa keep their harvest. But yeah - I know - that's a lot of berries.

Abby, Claire and Alexa - ready for a second round of picking. This time olallieberries.

Yeah, I know...

The happy harvesters ready to go back to the apple place for pies and pastries. Was a very fun outing. Now to figure out what to do with all the berries!

She's always wanted to do that

This is what she was playing - Deux Arabesque by Debussy People applauded when she was done. :-)