Yesterday I said good bye to my mom, aunt and cousins at 6am...they left to go back to Arkansas and I stayed to sleep a lil longer. I got up ate breakfast and did some yoga in the hotel's fitness room, I contemplated swimming but there were already 3 families in there so that talked me out of it. My first stop of the day was to Almar Orchards in Flushing, MI
They make this cider called JK's Scrumpy and it is the best hard cider if you like it to taste like a freshly picked apple, it's sweeter and fresher than any other cider I've tasted. And I got a little impromptu tour of the presses and bottling areas by a nice lady named Jessica. 
I think this is where they make the cider
After they're bottled they put bottles in these crates 
And then these tubs are filled with boiling water so the bottles can be lowered in to be pasteurized. 
This is a machine that sorts and washes the apples, those red cups have sticky stuff on them to attract bugs to keep them off the apples...they are a usda organic grower
Where the apples get washed
Once they're bottled and labeled they're put in these crates
They have 3 flavors I didn't know about and a pair one...I got to taste all the flavors!
I met JK, Jim Koan, himself! the orchard and farms have been In his family for 5 generations and he told me some stories about how it was his grandfather's cider recipe they use and he remembers when he was growing up they would have people come over and get drunk for a weekend because they were the only people with it for miles. He told me how he made the cider for parties when he was in college and the girls didn't like the taste but the boys didn't have any problem with drinking it and in the attempt to make something to get girls to drink it he made scrumpy's!
My next stop was Detroit...I really just wanted to look at the buildings so I drove around and took pics of the buildings. I felt like the building were super close together and there were quite a few that have been left to decay 
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