Apple Picking

On Friday, the 26th, mom, Karen and I went apple picking...we picked Empire Apples. They are the best tasting apples ever. Little trivia for you....the Empire Apple comes for the parents of Red Delicious and McIntosh, which makes it a sweet yet tart apple...SO GOOD! Yeah, it was raining, once again. Everytime we go pick fruit, it seems to rain on us. Last time in August we went to pick blueberries and it down poured. So this time we brought jackets and got soaked. We had to go on Friday because Saturday we had a Stake Enrichment that mom needed the apples for.
So, here's the best part. Mom needed 50 apples for the church thing, so she paid for 3 bags. When we got them all home, I weighed the three bags and it came to a total of 75.2 pounds. Mom started washing and counting out 50 apples. Turns out, my bag alone had 80 apples in it. This picture is of all the apples minus what went to church last night. So, if anyone has any great apple recipes or things to do with apples, we could use some help. :)