05.16.2005 14:06
Saturday: Hunt's Strawberries, Falls Lake and a swing and a miss
Saturday the kids were up in Raleigh, and I got
to plan activities. It's strawberry time 'round here and the
weather was going to be real nice, so I checked out
pick your own strawberry farms in Wake County. Hunt's
Strawberries, at
4505 Watkins Road, Raleigh (well, I wouldn't call it Raleigh,
but maybe you can see it from there) is easy to get to, and was a
great place to go.
Before heading out to Hunt's, we got some lunch at Cheeburger Cheeburger on Spring Lake near Six Forks, a 1950s style hamburger place. Kids meals come not on a plate or in a basket, but in a box looking like one of the convertibles from the 50s. The little one's came in a Ford Fairlane. The burgers are hand made (not machine shaped), with a big selection of toppings, and you have a choice of a couple of dozen shakes.
Then we drove out to Hunt's and picked for about an hour, got maybe four or five gallons of fresh, ripe strawberries, and quit when the sun broke through the clouds and it started getting a little warm.
After that, we drove over to Falls Lake (that's the Federal site, the North Carolina tourism site is here).
Get:Outdoors was having a demo day at their location on Falls of Neuse: you could try out different canoes and kayaks for free on the Neuse River until 4 pm. The demo days are once a month. I forgot to take photos. Sorry.
We had planned on seeing the Durham Bulls game that evening, but I had the time wrong, and instead of arriving before the first pitch at 5 pm, we got there around 7, just before the game ended. So, we headed back to Raleigh and had sandwiches, coffee and sodas at Coffee Katie's on Leesville just off 540.
A wonderful day.
Before heading out to Hunt's, we got some lunch at Cheeburger Cheeburger on Spring Lake near Six Forks, a 1950s style hamburger place. Kids meals come not on a plate or in a basket, but in a box looking like one of the convertibles from the 50s. The little one's came in a Ford Fairlane. The burgers are hand made (not machine shaped), with a big selection of toppings, and you have a choice of a couple of dozen shakes.
Then we drove out to Hunt's and picked for about an hour, got maybe four or five gallons of fresh, ripe strawberries, and quit when the sun broke through the clouds and it started getting a little warm.
After that, we drove over to Falls Lake (that's the Federal site, the North Carolina tourism site is here).
Get:Outdoors was having a demo day at their location on Falls of Neuse: you could try out different canoes and kayaks for free on the Neuse River until 4 pm. The demo days are once a month. I forgot to take photos. Sorry.
We had planned on seeing the Durham Bulls game that evening, but I had the time wrong, and instead of arriving before the first pitch at 5 pm, we got there around 7, just before the game ended. So, we headed back to Raleigh and had sandwiches, coffee and sodas at Coffee Katie's on Leesville just off 540.
A wonderful day.