Glastonbury Apple Harvest Festival

What are you going to do after you help your friend run his first 5K? Pig out at the nearest fair of course! After running the 34th Annual Apple Harvest Festival 5K road race, the 'official' race photographer (aka RRR) and I headed over to the fair grounds of the Glastonbury Apple Harvest Festival.

We perused the various stalls and made a few purchases including the adorable lunch bag (see post below) and a super cute pumpkin lantern for RRR. We tasted a few of the gourmet food items of some of the vendors but weren't moved enough to make a purchase.

And what's a fair without lots of fried goodness at your fingertips? The apple fritters seemed to be the item du jour and we chose a stand and decided to give them a whirl.

Basically, we're talking batter dipped apples that you coat with some powdered and cinnamon sugar. Yeah, it's fried dough with fruit in the middle. They were pretty good but RRR and I are 'purists' when it comes to fried dough (aka zeppoles to those not up on the Jerz slang) and weren't totally enamored with the fritters. Plus, this was not the apple fritters we remembered from our childhood...I believe those came courtesy of Mrs. Paul!

But there were more apples to be had and I followed the fritters with a slice of apple pie while enjoying the band playing at the fair. The pie was decent, but the chill in the air took a bit out of it... it would have been better if it was warm.

We didn't totally leave empty handed, however, and left the fair with bags of... what else? Apples!