Thursday, August 8, 2013

Blueberry Picking & Archery Games


Instead of flying straight into Virginia, Brian and I decided to fly into Maryland to visit his family and then buy the "green" truck and drive south to Christiansburg.

Blueberry Picking 




Not far from where Brian's family lives, is a wonderful place called Butler's Orchard, where you can go out on their property and harvest your produce at a greatly reduced cost. Since Brian's favorite fruit is blueberries we decided to go out and pick those.













Everyone's got their own style of picking blueberries.










We picked a ton of blueberries


 And good times were had by all


After you pick the blueberries you bring them into the store where they are weighed and paid for. In the store they also had a slushy machine that had two flavors of slushy lemonade. Both flavors were delicious




Archery Games

Besides picking blueberries until our fingers turned purple, we also played a few rounds of milk jug archery.

For those of you unfamiliar with milk jug archery here's how you play.
  •  Fill two empty milk jugs with equal amounts of water.
  • Tie these full milk jugs on either side of a rope on a pulley
  • Shot arrows into your milk jug and hope that you jug drains faster than your opponent's jug
  • Whomever's jug hits the ground looses


Everyone taking a few warm up shots before the game.


Brian and Michael setting up for the first round



This is a video of Brian vs Michael and Gina

Here's a video of Brian vs Dad


Dad examining his milk jug after the game


It's always fun to visit the Maryland house!

PS sorry for the poor quality of the videos that was the best I could upload under our current internet conditions.

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