You may have wondered why I haven't posted in a few days...Well I will tell you why?? We went to Cider Mill Heaven.... Yesirree.... To the Great State of Michigan...
Alright, maybe its not the best State, but they do have the best Cider Mills in all the Land.... Along with a cider mill, there are donuts... There is cider... There can be corn mazes, and hay rides, but also play areas, barns, and many upon many amazing photo ops in the great outdoors...
This is my favorite time of year, but to be in Michigan visiting family during this time of year made it even better!
Here is a photo Montage (minus people- because you know I just do that to ya) during our Cider Mill Frenzy...
We only went to one that was planned, the rest were spur of the moment... Going to Commerce to visit my Dad - Yup, there is a cider mill there.. Going to Brighton to visit my MIL, YUP, they have one too... Ah, I was in my glory...
Oh oh oH... And Veg did not get sick from eating the Donuts! YAHOOO!!! I know they are not Vegan... I know they are not healthy... But it is his first Ever Cider Mill donut and I wasn't going to keep him from trying one.... With some of the not so good ingredients, I thought for sure it would trigger his food allergies, but NOPE! All Good!!!
The Vomiting Gods were smiling on us. And by the way, so were the weather Gods.. Or should I just say GOD, but we only had one gloomy day. And if you know Michigan weather, you will know that only one gloomy day, is a rare thing!!
OK - Back to my pictures...
Here is the first one we went to... Spicer's --- I had to get a picture of Veg in front of this sign, because we have the same one back home at one of the Corn Mazes.
See the sign below... Line 10.... OH YES, on a normal day they have 10 lines of people waiting for Donuts. We were there on an OFF day... And that was a good thing!
Verdict.. Spicer's Donuts were pretty tasty, their cider was just like I remembered Michigan Cider to be. We didn't check out their corn Maze but did enjoy their play area, and watching the animals...
This place was pretty covered in Bees so if there is an allergy, I wouldn't hang out too long at this one. They also have pick your own apples, but we didn't do any of that. My MIL did bring us some to the hotel from here though and they are yummy!

I was playing with my camera setting, and got this flower picture at Spicer's. The flower was actually purple, but I inverted the colors. Thought it was kind of cool.
If you look really close, you'll see a Rainbow over this windmill. There was no rain, but there was an amazing rainbow just the same...
Then we went to Long's on Day 2... The best donuts so far. Not too greasy.. Cider was perfect (not to sweet, no after taste, just plain good)... We went through the Corn maze at Long's... Well Sorta!! We only got through half... You'll see why in the next photo. They didn't have much of a play area yet, still building it, but they had a cool Goat area and awesome Picnic section. With NO BEES! (at least while we were there)

So here is the Corn maze... Grandpa L. had never been in one before, and was quite hesitant that we would ever find our way out... Think he was right... About 2 feet inside my Veg says "I think we are lost Grandpa" Ha Ha Ha Yeah, ya think... It is a 5 Acre maze... You get out at the 1/2 way point and then go back in to finish... We stopped at the 1/2 way point... *smile* If Hubby were there, we would have finished, I'm sure of it!!

If you look closely, you'll see Herman the Stuffed Spider... He has traveled from Michigan to Utah and several states in between... He was passed down from Grandpa to Veg... And This is his first Corn maze Experience....We will try to take good care of Herman and take him on many more adventures, before passing him on to the next family member.
Just Yummm.... OK People, there is Apple Cider everywhere, I get this... But fresh Cider Mill Cider is just DARN GOOD!
And then on day 3 there was Three Cedars Farm... Good Donuts (not hot like the others, but good).. I went for hot cider this time.. We went on a hay ride at this one, which took us to a small corn maze. Just right for NeeNee's first time inside one.
The play area at this one, was by far my favorite. They also had a neat little candy shop and general store.
I think I liked their Donuts best because they weren't fresh/hot... I mean they weren't greasy at all.
Hubby and Veg liked the hot ones better, but then I'm always the odd ball.
Well obviously if I have this many photos without People in them, you can only imagine how many I took with People... I was having a blast with my camera this trip....
Did I mention that I love Michigan Cider Mills.... AH! so glad we went in October!!! Mmmm Good!