Emmett is known for Cherry Festival (in June). However, unfortunately, since I have moved here most of the orchards have been mowed down. We do have some that remain and allow us the fun of picking cherries all by ourselves.

Can we reach these? Sarita and Callista w ork out strategy.

Nathan gets the lower branches.
Callista looks charming even on a hot day picking cherries.
Look, mom, we have some more.
The funniest thing was that as the kids got out of the car the owners of the orchard asked if we were with the bigger group? Hunh? what? Amazingly enough out here in Emmett, ID was a huge group of Chinese tourists (kids and all) picking cherries. We went ahead and tagged along since they also brought ladders.

The worst part was that they had just mowed and I started sneezing about 10 minutes in. You would all be proud of the way I stayed the course until we had gathered 12 lbs of cherries.