Donuts and Fresh Cider Anyone?

My love hate relationship continues with Michigan. I came home from Physical Therapy to change then Grant and I were off! We ran to Yates Cider Mill over in Rochester Hills to grab fresh apple cinnamon donuts and fresh apple cider!

When we pulled into Yates it was very busy, to say the least, between families with the day off and school tours we were in for a treat!

Our first stop there was to walk down to the creek and just enjoy listening to the water moving with the sun behind it. The view was spectacular. We took lots of pictures.

Then we walked to the attractions. The first one was a pumpkin tent that had tons of pumpkins to choose from for carving. They did also have cute painted pumpkins.

Then we managed to walk into the gift store and I couldn’t help myself. I might’ve smelled every candle in the store twice… (No regrets right?) I did end up buying a perfect fall candle. I’m a big fan of it. I also bought some local honey. I really want to test seeing if you eat local honey if it improves your allergies. I have doubts but people swear by it.)

After that we somehow wound up in the fudge tent! (I know your all thinking, oh god, this is going to get dangerous for both my jeans and my wallet…. But it didn’t!) They have a special right now where it’s buy two slices get the third free so we sampled a few and decided on cookies and cream, sea salt caramel and chocolate peanut butter to take home and enjoy. Let me repeat, no regrets, and this is a judgment free zone!

Okay the part you’ve all been waiting for! We got in line for the fresh donuts and cider. The line was a little long but moved swiftly. Then we were in the building deciding what to eat. We settled on a half dozen with a pint of cider. When we got our food we took it and went to search for a place to sit. To avoid all the bees we went back down to the creek.

We set out our cups and napkins and had a picnic for brunch with donuts and cider. It would’ve been picture perfect except for the damn bees! We had to keep the donuts covered, plus napkins over our cider. (There was a close encounter where a bumblebee who tried to go for a swim in my cider. I was not a happy camper!) Anyhow that’s life it’s all about handling anything and making it fun so we just kept the drinks covered except to take a sip. (Even then the napkin was only removed as it hit your mouth.)