On Tuesday, we made a trip to Jullian, NC to visit a real creamery with our homeschool group. It was awesome. . .except for the extreme wind.
Of course we did lots of mooing. We even stopped the car in the middle of the road to talk to a llama across the fence.
This is the 7 day old calf we got to pet and feed a bottle to. He was SO cute. If your fingers got anywhere close to his lips, he started sucking them, thinking he would get some milk. Maddie and Ry both experienced this.
Check out my cow girl, milking the teats of this cow (okay, it's not real, but I'm not sure I would want her on the underside of a real cow).
After a fun hay ride, feeding a calf, milking a pretend cow, visiting the milking parlor, and singing with a rooster, guess what the Wells' children's favorite part of the field trip was. The ice cream at the end. We all got a cupful of fresh, birthday cake ice cream. Oh was it yummy. However, to really enjoy it, we had to eat it inside the minivan, as the wind made the outside temperature feel like it was in the 40's!
And for the first time ever, I longed for a GPS (I should have called Christy :)). Getting lost in the middle of no where is NO fun!
Oh, and we laughed and laughed and laughed at the Australian sheep dog that was "herding" us on the hay ride (oh no. . does this mean, I'm really a dog person because I'm reporting this). He was running ahead of the tractor that pulled us and laying in the road, waiting until he almost got run over, to run ahead of us again. Madeline, Ryan and I laughed and laughed that this.
2 comments:
This looks like such a fun day. You should check out "Goat Lady Dairy" (http://www.goatladydairy.com/Visit.htm). I went there a few years ago and had a lot of fun learning about goats, how they make cheese, and petting the baby goats.
I didn't know you homeschooled. That's awesome. Dan and I have talked about homeschooling our (future) kids.
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