Osoyoos Cherries

Every year since our kids were little, we vacationed with dear friends from work. All of us are in education and have children about the same age. As the kids grew so did our vacations. A couple of years ago all 16 of us  decided to rent a house in Osoyoos, Canada, not far from the Northeastern border of Washington State.

The house was older, the rooms were small, but the location was great. We spent much of the time on the lake, walking the property, playing games like capture the flag and wolf and of course there was plenty of food!

Why then did I find it necessary to harvest baskets full of ripe cherries? They were deliciously inviting and abundant. I ate as many and I gathered in the baskets.

Too bad no one warned me about the cherries.

                       

There is nothing worse than slicing open a cherry to find little white larvae enjoying the cherries as much as I did… or I thought I did…

I continued to cut open cherries hoping that this one cherry was an anomaly only to find that every cherry I sliced open had the same creamy, white, legless maggots. “OH MY GOSH, how many did I ingest?”

Western Cherry fruit fly larvae

I ingested enough to consider how much alcohol just might kill these aliens before they started exiting my body to pupate!!