strawberry picking!

we went strawberry picking at Krause Brothers' Farms this morning in aldergrove! :D we got there relatively early.. at around 9:15 am after being lost for a few minutes (mapquest and google maps aren't too accurate unfortunately). left vancouver at 8 am and had a nice drive down :) when we got there, their parking lot was already full of cars and people were already out picking! we grabbed our ice cream buckets (i used my IsoGold protein powder tall bucket ;) ) and jumped (or rather i hobbled while the rest of them jumped) into the strawberry patch :) (i sprained my ankle at gymnastics just the other day so i pretty much hobbled everywhere today.)

we were crouched down in the dirt amongst tons of ripe, juicy, and sweet strawberries and emerged 30 minutes later with strawberry stained hands, strawberry stained shirts (for one of us!), and strawberry filled buckets! JC just sat there popping them in his mouth while we hastily plucked them off the plant and dropped them into our buckets. i paid $11.39 for 9.11 pounds of strawberries!

after standing in line for about 10 minutes, we hungrily walked to the bakery to see what they had. there were about 8 4-inch high strawberry custard pies on reserve from customer orders and only 3 non-reserved pies left! so i grabbed one and MN grabbed a raspberry one. both MN and K bought a raspberry smoothie and LG bought preserved asparagus and some blackberry jam (YUM).

we left the farm around 11 am and headed back into vancouver. after lunch, washed all my strawberries, gobbled down a few more into my mouth ;), packed them into individual freezer bags and popped them into the freezer. i left some in the fridge so i could eat them and use them in my protein shakes.

too bad i didn't have a camera... no pictures to post :(