Strawberry picking!

Saturday was a bright and sunny day 🙂 I had been telling BH for the longest time that I wanna go berries picking, so I found out about Spooner Farms. The berries from this farm is known to be super sweet.. so… we decided to make a drive down to Olympia ( it’s 1 hrs drive there!). Anyway, Olympia is the capital of Washington State ( not Seattle)

We reached the farm ( easy to find) – it wasn’t those kinda isolated place you expect the farm to be. In fact, it was along the road. And yes, it was super crowded. Many pple were buying ready picked berries ( $2.25/lb) BUT we choose U-pick ( $1.25/lb). I was kinda suprised that U-pick was cheaper.. haha… anyway, it’s fun to eat the berries you pick.

Seriously, I was very excited. We walked into the rows of berry plants and I could see many red berries hiding underneath the leaves along the rows. hahaha ” 你不能摆脱我的魔掌!” (used google translate for the chinese words.. heh… not so power la!)  So, we were allocated a row to pick berries from. The berries were in abundance!! You need not fear that you can’t fill up the box!

It’s not our first time doing strawberry picking together. We did it once in Cameron Highlands, Malaysia. The berries at Malaysia were not that sweet and were sparse. It’s totally different here!

The berries smelt soooooooooooo good…I can’t help it but to pop some into my mouth while picking! Not advisable!!! haha..

The unglam picking job! The weather was scrotching hot BUT still cool enough – we didn’t perspire! Picking to the view of Mt Rainier was simply a joy! I was really happy, suddenly I was worries-free! Strawberry picking is so theraputic!

I was reminding ourselves not to pick too many berries – fearing that we can’t finish it. However, BH brilliantly suggested that we could mk strawberry jam!!! 😀 So, we’ll making strawberry jam at the end of the week when the blender reach me! heh.. he even brought me to Ikea to buy jam jars and Fred Meyer to buy a special powder for the jam! Let’s see how it will turn out! I’ll mk more  and bring to SG if it’s good!

We ended the day with grocery shopping at Walmart, Lacey – This Walmart is HUGE = alot of deals!! On top of it, it’s coupons friendly! hahaha… so… managed to grab cheaper groceries! As though we don’t want the day to end yet, we went to redeem our free dvd and watched ‘The Lovely Bones’ ( which I thought the movie was crap and the book was way much better!)

Happy day! More pls!!!