My Many Colored Days: Apple Picking and Husker Stadium

Sunday, September 21, 2014

Apple Picking and Husker Stadium

Yep, you read that correctly! We had a big Saturday! When we went peach picking a couple weeks ago, Brad pointed out that we were only 20 miles from Lincoln. Then we came up with the idea to bring the kids to see Memorial Stadium (where the Huskers play) the same day we went apple picking. So, here is a peek at our day...

Apple picking was a little disappointing this year. Last year we went in October because we love Gala and they were ripe mid Oct. This year we are going to be pretty busy in Oct. so we opted for a Sept visit. Our beloved Martin's Hillside Orchard's Facebook page warned that the recent rains brought out the mosquitoes, and to wear repellent, which we did, but it was not strong enough! Despite our best efforts, we picked minimal apples because we were swatting mosquitoes so much while picking. We did have a good time, but not as much as usual. I didn't get nearly as many cute pictures in the orchard this year because we had to swat away mosquitoes between every shot! Thankfully the tire swing didn't seem quite as bad so that was definitely our best part of the morning.

He loves it, but so much harder to hold on with littler legs!

No problem having Dad get her as high as he can.

Tire Swing Smiles

We headed to Lincoln and loved getting our treat of Raising Cane's chicken for lunch. Oh how we miss that place!

And yes, this did require an outfit change. Are you really that surprised?

We did a little consignment shopping (found snow boots, score!) and then headed to the stadium. The game wasn't until 7 pm, but we did not realize how many fans would be there at 3 pm....the masses were there in full force so it took us 40+ minutes to find parking. When we got to the stadium we checked out the lobby filled with Husker trophies, which the kids thought were pretty neat. Then we headed to the practice field outside the stadium that had free games, face painting and balloon animals for the kids to enjoy. They had a blast. Their favorite part of the day was playing the games. They really loved the obstacle course, went twice and would have loved to have kept going. We headed out and happened to time it with the buses of players arriving, so got to see the tops of their heads walking in and hear the band play. They also had a bubble machine going and they loved chasing those.