Brown's Berry Patch 2012

Our last day in the Finger Lakes was fairly short, as we decided to head home. Instead of going straight down Seneca Lake, we headed West toward Buffalo. There is a great berry picking place with a playground in Waterport, NY. The farm playground at Brown's Berry Patch is fantastic - the only problem was that it was over 90 degrees and extremely humid!

The outdoor jumping pillow is everyone's favorite. It was so very hot that the boys ran around inside a mister tent to try to cool off. Nolan was quite wet after that experience!

We all went berry picking after playing in the barnyard playground, and the boys certainly loved picking blueberries and raspberries!

We stopped by the cherry orchards to pick cherries, and Nolan decided to take a break with Grandma. It was sweltering, but at least the cherry trees offered a little shade.

We headed out of the berry patch and Grandma and Grandpa picked up the tab for the fruit. Just a word to the wise - check the price per pound on the cherries before picking! There are no scales in the orchard, so you might walk out with, say, $44 in cherries. The blueberries and raspberries were much cheaper!

I ended up making some blueberry and raspberry jam from the berries we couldn't eat whole. We managed to eat our hefty amount of cherries, which were absolutely fabulous. We were all relieved to get to the car and turn on the air conditioning!