September 4: The Romeo Peach Festival

Every year around this time, my wife brings up the annual Peach Festival in Romeo; commenting that it would be something fun to do one of these years. Well, 2010 was finally that year. Yep, we loaded up the family into the Vue and headed north to Romeo to partake in some peaches and whatever else came our way! Apparently, every other family in Macomb county decided that 2010 was their year, as well, as the streets of downtown Romeo were packed. We managed to immediately discover a fair down one of the side streets and the kids, of course, had to go on at least one ride. Unfortunately, that's about all we found. There were a lot of booths up and down the main street selling a number of different peach-themed goods, but not too much else. So, we packed it in early, but decided to make a pit stop at Westview Orchards on the way back home. This turned out to be the big hit of the day, as they have a huge play area for kids that features several wood play sets, including a pirate ship, castle and tractor. We took a hay ride out to their 5-acre corn maze, then headed back to the main part of the farm to visit their petting zoo, huge hay stack, and 40-foot slide. We wrapped things up with some cider, donuts and, of course, a peach pie! Yes, it's still officially Summer, but today sure felt like a Fall day instead.