Mitch and Alex Kelly: a piece of the country

welcome to upstate new york! it's amazing how the scenery changes by getting a couple hours out of the city.

we had a fall church retreat that we went to. yay camping!

we went to this really cool orchard. and we u-picked our own apples.

we saw pretty berries; but we didn't eat them - they could have been poisonous. we ate LOTS of apples though. we had to taste them to make sure they were okay you know... plus ron said it was alright- and ron's good with rules - he wouldn't have said that if it were illegal.

after apple picking and apple eating we headed back to the shop area for hot cider {delicious} and famous apple cider doughnuts

the doughnuts were AMAZING. they came out

hot hot hot

and delicious... sooo delicious! best doughnuts ever - there was a big line but they were totally worth the wait. the line was so huge because they couldn't make them fast enough to keep up with the orders. and you were limited to 1 1/2 dozen per person. we shared a half dozen between the four of us {we were all super good - because we could have eaten sooo much more till we were sick!}

we weren't really "roughing it" per say... but we were fully prepared to. the camp sight had cabins and a mowed lawn and real bathrooms {i appreciate that} but we were all caught off guard when the temperature hit 21 degrees saturday night. i was very fortunate because mitch got me a sleeping bag that is for 20 degree weather so i was set. and we all hung out by the campfire.

one of the guys has this stellar star gazing set up. so we went stargazing - it was alot colder away from the campfire but totally worth it. we saw jupiter and the for moons circling around it {pretty wild} and the milky way galaxy and the 7 sisters {andromida} and this cool constellation mitch discovered called alexandria. {he's pretty sweet to me}

we don't see stars here at all. when we went to montauk it was the first time we'd {okay just me - because mitch has been back to seattle} seen stars since moving to NYC.