'Tis the season...

For Blueberry picking!!
Jakes most loved berry (He begs me to buy them if hes spots them, at $6 a punnet eeeek!) So decided to go and pick them ourselves, which is more fun then supermarket shopping, and teaches Jake were food actually comes from (not a clear plastic container shock horror!)
I was hoping it would cheer him up a little too as hes unwell today so missed out on his last day of homebased care (But we popped in to say bye and deliever the lolly tree, so he was happy with that.)
The Berry company is just past Ohaupo and it costs $8.50 kg (and punnet is 250g!! MEGA savings!!)

Inspecting the berry...

CLose up of a wee bunch.

The car was down the end there.... somewhere... We went in deep in the row to get to where it hadnt been picked muched but....

There was still miles behind us untouched! And there where rows and rows and rows of this! Amazing, and both sides of the road. Great set up and the staff were lovely too. Plus it was a lovely sunny day.

Blueberry bush, I was hoping to show all the blue but couldnt get close enough, just believe me when I say there was alot of blueberries!

The smaller one of the three containers we filled. We ended up with 6kg! We though it was Much more, total cost was $50, which is brillant. We are going to freeze a lot for blueberry smoothies, blueberry icecream, mum brought me an icecream maker a few weeks back to make Jake dairy free icecream, I imagine homemade blueberry yoghurt icecream will be divine!! *droool* blueberry muffins, blueberry cheesecake......

They taste fab too, much nicer the store brought, theres no tarty bite to them. Next we are going strawberry picking, Jakes second fave, hoping for xmas eve day. I just have to hunt down a place that does it.

And then to finish off the day we ended up at accident and medical with Jake :S Will add pics later of his new toy! Hes all now good tho, him and his 11 items of medication!!! Thank god hes free to medicate! Again lovely staff and very quick process, we probably waited the same amount of time you would if you were at your normal GP with an appt. Just awesome, I dont know why more people dont use it instead of waiting up at the hospital or Accident and emergancy (and pay for children!) for hours.