A Taste of the Farm

Today the kids and I set out for an adventure at the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point (it's $2 Tuesday), but when we got there the line was longer than the ones at DisneyLand!! So I quickly scratched that plan and went to go visit my mom and sister. While sitting there I decided I still wanted to go do something fun with the kids, so we went to the petting zoo at Gardner Village. Loved it!
Meet our new friends....
This is Francis. She is a sweet little calf who just wanted to lay there and be loved. Don't you love her close-up?
The silly goat reaching up for the tree is Giggles. She's not the prettiest girl in the pageant but she was sweet. I don't know the llamas name, but I learned something new about them today. Did you know that their teeth keep growing! They have to sedate it and have the vet trim them down once in a while. The ginormous pig is Sally, she's the owners baby. She is about 5 yrs old and weighs 800 lbs. That's a lot of bacon! No, she was awesome, loves to be pet and enjoyed being sprayed off with the hose. And aren't those just the cutest little pop-belly piglets.
This little goat is Peewee and was definitely the favorite. She/he? was so funny! First it came and climbed in my lap, and just wanted to be loved. Then it discovered my necklace and wanted to nibble it. So after I moved that it found my hair, then my purse... it wanted to chew everything. It was quite funny to me, and the kids. After it got real comfortable with us it started butting us with its horns a little. It didn't hurt, it was just funny and cute to see it want to play.


Here is Peewee trying to get Grace's hair... And Kiersti, my sister, is scolding him/her for nibbling her hair too. As obnoxious as that may sound, it was really a fun little goat. We wanted to bring it home so bad!

"Look mom, no hands!" What's a visit to the petting zoo with out a pony ride!
What a fun day, who needs dinosaurs anyway. Bah! All those people standing out in the rain in a line wrapped around the building are crazy! I would much rather play with real, live animals!

P.S. One more day til Grace starts school!!