Cherry Picking

My heart sang this oldies when I am eating the cherries and editing the photos,

Sherry, Sherry baby
Sherry, Sherry baby

Sherry baby (sherry baby) baby (Sherry baby)
Sherry can you come out tonight?
(Come, come, come out tonight)
Sherry baby (Sherry baby)
Sherry can you come out tonight?

(Why don't you come out, come out)
Come out to my twist party
(Come out) Where the bright lights shine
(Come out) We'll dance the night away
I'm gonna make you mine

Sherry baby (Sherry baby)
Sherry can you come out tonight
(Come come, come out tonight)
(Come come, come out tonight)
You'd better ask your mama (Sherry baby)
Tell her everything is alright

(Why don't you come out, come out)
With your red dress on
(Come out) Mmm. you look so fine
(Ccome out) Move it nice and easy
Girl, you make me lose my mind

Gary hasn’t been resting well since we opened the FilmNeverDie pop up shop in the city. It’s the cherry season starting in mid November, so I forced him to take a day off (which he really needed) before the sweet cherries are gone.

When I was doing the cherry farm research, I found that there are quite a few of cherry and fruit farms in Victoria. How blessed we are to be living in the world’s most liveable city. Just one hour of drive from the CBD, there’s beautiful oak forests and plenty of fruit farms. And just two hours of drive from the CBD, there are lavender farms and snow mountains.

We decided to choose Blue Hill U Pick Cherry Farm after reading some good reviews on their Facebook page, and we were impressed by their daily cherry updates and info on the website. 

The morning was cloudy, but it was perfect for a cherry picking day. I prayed hard that there were still sweet cherries left for us. We were greeted by Angela, an amazingly friendly staff at the Blue Hill U Pick Cherry Farm. According to Angela, there were 1000 visitors the day before (Sunday)! Wow, that’s why I love to have weekday as our rest day, not the weekend.

We totally gone crazy when we saw the shiny shiny red cherries because it was our first time picking cherries! Took heaps of photos before the cherries were gone, and we ate the cherries as we picked. Had a picnic, and a quality catch up with Kelly who just moved to Melbourne few months ago. Thank you Kelly for taking nice photos of me haha! We spent 5 hours relaxing at the farm, yes, 5 hours, when other people only spent an hour.

Thank God for blessing us with enough sweet cherries and it only started to rain after we have finished picking the cherries. Went home happily with a cherry tummy and with a basketful of sweet cherries to be wrapped as Christmas gifts for my dearest friends :)