Another day at the farm

On Monday we took our annual MOPS trip to the strawberry patch at Underwood Family Farms in Moorpark. It was a gorgeous day, and this year we went with Elissa and Harvey, for what could be the last time for a while, since neither of us has a car big enough for two adults and three car seats!
At the farm, we also played with Genia, Ave, Johnny and Owen.

This early in the season, we had to search a bit for ripe berries, but Cora and I did find enough to fill our containers.

I'm glad the trip was planned for mid-March and not much later in the spring; I'm not sure I would have been up for such a trip any later! I'm definitely feeling very pregnant these days.

We had our lunch in the sand box area at the farm, and on our way out, I thought it would be nice to get a picture of me and Cora with our berries, and my belly.

Cora did not really agree. This one picture of us smiling was the second-to-the-last photo in a string of 15 photos Elissa took, trying to get one decent one. I don't know why Cora was suddenly so uncooperative, but Elissa and I both had to laugh about it.

Just for fun, and for my own memory's sake, I'm including some of the less-desirable photos here too.

After the farm, we went to Fresh and Easy market, our little tradition. I was happy to find not only the English back bacon Stace loves, but a number of other British products.

Stace had just run out of Marmite over the weekend, so he was thrilled when he came home to find a new jar. He had figured he'd have to wait until his parents come out in May to bring him some. I also bought Bisto gravy granules, something else we don't stock here except for at import stores.

Stace used the old line when he came home, that the way to an Englishman's heart is through his stomach.