apple picking
We usually wait until almost October to go apple picking. This year we decided to go a little earlier while it was still warm outside. There were so many apples! We picked almost 20 pounds in under 10 minutes.





We usually wait until almost October to go apple picking. This year we decided to go a little earlier while it was still warm outside. There were so many apples! We picked almost 20 pounds in under 10 minutes.





We met a kid boat in the marina in Turks and Caicos that was also in the same marina in Dominican Republic. We only talked with them briefly a couple times, but they invited us to an Airbnb they rented up in the mountains for a couple days. We weren&
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