Tanner's Apple Orchard

We visited Cory's family in Peoria two weekends ago.  On Sunday we went to Tanner's Apple Orchard which is just outside of Peoria in Speer, Illinois.  I was pretty impressed with the setup.  They had a market that had all sorts of different food items (mostly apple related) and had samples of almost everything.  They also had tons of pumpkins and mums. 

For the kids they had farms animals and a huge playground area.  Brady had a blast playing on the various playgrounds, taking a tractor barrel ride, mining for 'gems', riding bikes, playing mini golf and driving the school bus.

After the playground we capped off they day by picking our own apples in the apple orchard.  Brady loved sampling the fruit and most of the trees had apples low enough he could pick.  While picking we stumbled upon a caterpillar and after a bit of apprehension Brady decided to hold it.  Then he gave it to Papa and Cory to watch while we walked through the pumpkin patch.  Somehow Papa and Cory managed to lose Mr Caterpillar, but no worries we stumbled upon another one on our walk.  Brady got real excited and said "There's my caterpillar, he followed us."  Well, pretty sure it wasn't his caterpillar, but maybe they were related as they looked strikingly similar.