Tips to remember for next time:
- It gets HOT! Get there as early as possible, between 7-8am if possible. When we arrived at about 8:15, it wasn't too hot. There were people who were already leaving with full buckets. However, it quickly got hot in the sun. Ponytails for me and the girls helped, and I ought to start wearing a hat. We also brought and emptied three big water bottles. I clipped the water bottles to the buckets when the girls weren't carrying them.
- Bring cash. You can pay for the berries with cash or a check. However, the sno-cone place only accepts cash. Neither place accepts a credit card.
- Go with friends. Sparkle was tired as soon as we got to the blueberry bushes. However, when a girl friend her age showed up, she perked right up again.
- Let the kids eat as much as they want and don't give them any quotas to fill.
- Sing! I heard another family singing as they picked. It built a feeling of togetherness and they could hear where each other were. My kids wandered out of eyesight; it's almost impossible to not do so. However, they were still within earshot, but we didn't converse much. Once Sparkle wandered a bit too far for her comfort and got scared. Fortunately another mom in our group saw her before she freaked out. (She was really close, but it's hard to see through the rows of bushes. If she had hollered, I would have heard her.)
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