Travelog for: Hinz + Kunz

Today we went to the UBC Apple Festival.  It is held once a year at the University of British Columbia's botanical gardens.



This is where the main event is.  There is apple tasting, cider apple chips and candy apples for sale, information about local apples, experts on growing apples, people selling crafts and even a kids zone where there were crafts and balloon animals.



There's even chili being served in an authentic WWII chuck wagon!  It's going fast because it's cold out and could rain any moment.



Part of the botanical gardens is an area where they grow fruits and vegetables.  All of the produce is donated to the Salvation Army.



Abby bought everyone tickets to the 1:30 apple tasting.  There are volunteers handing out samples for about 60 types of apples.  Abby and Erin say they have a tried and true method for tasting every single kind before the half an hour is over.



We were first in line.  Abby took this picture of us before we went in because she said that we would be busy eating and would not have time for pictures if we wanted to try every kind of apple.



We did it!  Every single kind that they were handing out, including the apples that astronaut Yuri Gagarin took into space, and a brand new kind developed in the interior of British Columbia that does not have a name yet.

The apple fest was a lot of fun. We didn't even know that many kinds of apples existed...

It is Abby's nineteenth birthday and we are baking her a tea cake.

The first thing we did was make the tea.  We are using organic creme brulee rooibos from David's Tea.



Next we mixed butter and sugar.



Then added eggs and almond extract.



We mixed flour and baking powder,



Then added it and the tea to the batter.





The whole time Lou was helping.



In the oven!









It was really good!

Happy Halloween!  This year we are cowboys!

We helped Abby carve her pumpkin.





We decided on pumpkin pi.



Then, we decided to roast the seeds.



While we were waiting, we put the pumpkin outside.



Yum!