Friday, September 21, 2007

Apple Cider

The apple cider business is a big business in this part of England. There are lots of big apple orchards. These pictures show one that is withing walking distance of our apartment. In the first picture, notice the sheep that are resting beneath the apple trees.

On the way to church every Sunday we pass a small town with a huge cider factory. Notice the big cylinder-shaped storage tanks behind the factory.

The county that we live in is Sommerset. The Sommerset cricket team is named the Cidermen!

When Julie was here, she and I walked to the farm shop with the kids. There were two big jugs of cider and small cups. We sent Lauren to ask if we could have samples of the cider. We chose the one labeled "Sweet Cider". As soon as we poured it we could smell the extremely high alcohol content----it smelled terrible! I guess the farm shop lady thought we were getting alcohol for the kids! Maybe she just thought we were dumb foreigners! (She may have seen us pouring it out!)

3 comments:

Staci said...

Glad you smelled it before you let the kids drink it!!! That could've been bad!! It probably wouldn't take much "cider" to get Katelyn drunk with as small as she is!

Staci said...

I didn't get to finish that last comment :) Is it all alcoholic? I love cider...but I usually have it out of the packet!

Anonymous said...

Sounds like an episode from Andy Griffith. Barney thinks someone is just making cider but Andy knows that it is alcoholic. Can't you imagine how Barney looks when he finds out the truth.