Four sets of oars form a sort of roof
Pumpkin Picking at Alstede Farm, Chester, Morris County, New Jersey - 24th October 2018
Thanks to a car borrowed from Phil and Tania, we get to go "up country" a bit and do a spot of pumpkin and apple picking at Alstede Farms in Chester, New Jersey. It's a pleasant trip, with orchards, pumpkins, some goats and a ride around in a trailer pulled by a tractor. Plus, we buy the world's biggest pumpkin - for $20 or something stupid - to carve up for Hallowe'en. Before that, we drive over to the boat pond in South Orange so that the boys can go mad in a playground for a bit, then follow that up with a stop at PieZon Pizza in West Orange - a place that from the outside, it has to be said, looks less than promising, but which does have genuinely good authentic-style pizza.
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Isobel and the boys wander up Cherry Lane
A County of Essex sign
A playground in tall-ship form
Fred runs around whilst Harry looks out
Flags, and the Orange Resevoir
Swan pedalos on the Orange Resevoir
Isobel gets up
Fred pokes a statue
A bunch of traditional US traffic lights
Inside PieZon Pizza, with its cool sign
Harry and Isobel, at the counter, look over
Fred and Harry
There's some sort of bird of prey in the sky
Alstede Farm
Isobel gets the entry tickets
The boys wander off with a fruit box
Harry runs around in the orchards
We head off into the maize maze
We roam around in the 'beginners' maze
The boys look worried
We reach the centre of the maze
Fred and Harry look out over the maize
Fred and Isobel leg it
We're at the next waypoint
Harry runs out of the maze
The boys lean on a fence
Harry stops on a track
The boys in the rows of apple trees
Fred's box of apples
We head off up the hill
Fred and Harry look for more apples to pick
Harry and Isobel
We arrive at the pumpkin field
The boys are overwhelmed by the pumpkins on offer
Harry and Fred both choose massive pumpkins
Harry contemplates a big orange vegetable
Harry hugs his pumpkin
Pumpkins, and a cross on the hill
We haul our booty back to the pay point
Striding along the track to the sales shed
Fred hauls a pumpkin up to the counter
Harry has a sit down on the trolley
Fred hauls our collection to the car
We roam around a bit more
The famberly on a trailer
There's a cool derelict house on the Hay Ride
Isobel on the Hay Ride trailer
Pumpkin patch sign - in case it wasn't obvious
The ride is over
We stop off for hot chocolate and get free popcorn
The boys do hot chocolate
Harry does his best 'statue of Liberty'
Fred does the Liberty thing too
Fred wanders around the pumpkins
Harry's amazed by a pumpkin
Fred looks like a Farmall Cub tractor
The boys mess around on an old McCormick Farmall
Harry pulls a lever
Fred's too tall for the face-cut-out picture thing
The Alstede Farm Shop
Pumpkins are piled up outside the door
Fred, Harry and Nosher do pumpkin carving
It's a family pumpkin carving session
Goldberg's café, all in red
Autumn colours reflected in the pond
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Four sets of oars form a sort of roof
Four sets of oars form a sort of roof
Isobel and the boys wander up Cherry Lane
A County of Essex sign
A playground in tall-ship form
Fred runs around whilst Harry looks out
Flags, and the Orange Resevoir
Swan pedalos on the Orange Resevoir
Isobel gets up
Fred pokes a statue
A bunch of traditional US traffic lights
Inside PieZon Pizza, with its cool sign
Harry and Isobel, at the counter, look over
Fred and Harry
There's some sort of bird of prey in the sky
Alstede Farm
Isobel gets the entry tickets
The boys wander off with a fruit box
Harry runs around in the orchards
We head off into the maize maze
We roam around in the 'beginners' maze
The boys look worried
We reach the centre of the maze
Fred and Harry look out over the maize
Fred and Isobel leg it
We're at the next waypoint
Harry runs out of the maze
The boys lean on a fence
Harry stops on a track
The boys in the rows of apple trees
Fred's box of apples
We head off up the hill
Fred and Harry look for more apples to pick
Harry and Isobel
We arrive at the pumpkin field
The boys are overwhelmed by the pumpkins on offer
Harry and Fred both choose massive pumpkins
Harry contemplates a big orange vegetable
Harry hugs his pumpkin
Pumpkins, and a cross on the hill
We haul our booty back to the pay point
Striding along the track to the sales shed
Fred hauls a pumpkin up to the counter
Harry has a sit down on the trolley
Fred hauls our collection to the car
We roam around a bit more
The famberly on a trailer
There's a cool derelict house on the Hay Ride
Isobel on the Hay Ride trailer
Pumpkin patch sign - in case it wasn't obvious
The ride is over
We stop off for hot chocolate and get free popcorn
The boys do hot chocolate
Harry does his best 'statue of Liberty'
Fred does the Liberty thing too
Fred wanders around the pumpkins
Harry's amazed by a pumpkin
Fred looks like a Farmall Cub tractor
The boys mess around on an old McCormick Farmall
Harry pulls a lever
Fred's too tall for the face-cut-out picture thing
The Alstede Farm Shop
Pumpkins are piled up outside the door
Fred, Harry and Nosher do pumpkin carving
It's a family pumpkin carving session
Goldberg's café, all in red
Autumn colours reflected in the pond