Yesterday, some good friends of and I went to pick some apples from a local orchard. I anticipated the entire experience of apple picking that I had with my family growing up. This of course included the diverse selective apples coming from tall trees, caramel apples, and having to use the long apple picking stick to retrieve an apple (while shaking several other nearby apples along the way, sometimes hitting innocent bystanders).
I was slightly disappointed. All the trees are short enough so you could pick apples with just your bare hands. The apples were pretty tasty though. The orchard even had Asian Pear trees! While I didn't see any caramel apples, they did have apple slush.
I didn't realize that apples were so "pricey" even at orchards.