Apple Orchard Field Trip

Today was my first field trip of the year.  We went to an apple orchard.  I had so much fun!  We played mini golf, ate donuts, drank cider, played on a cattle and a ship, had a haunted hay ride and ate more donuts.  They even gave us an apple and a pumpkin to take home!  The weather was perfect and I had so much fun!  We also found our way through a labyrinth and walked through this weird tunnel that rolled and had weird lights...it made momma sick!  I fed goats and llamas and there were even bunnies for us to look at.  I wore myself out and fell asleep on the way home after all that fun.  Here are some of the million pictures Momma took of me with the specific purpose of annoying me...

 

This is a pony swing made out of a tire!  It was pretty cool!!

This is the closest Momma will get to tying me down!!

This is me and my class!  I'm on the far right end and my teacher is on the far left!  The girl in the pink in the middle is one of my closeset friends at the moment.  There are two kids missing from this photo, they couldn't come today.  My teacher told us to make funny faces!!

The cider and donuts were really good!!

 I like feeding the goats, they are gentle...

The llama on the other hand...  He freaked me out pretty good, and he knocked the food right out of my hand!!  RUDE!

Yup, bring me somewhere new and I still just want to go to the park.

I was pretty good at this.  I got the ball in the hole pretty quick most of the time.

Safari (We're having fun!)

We went to the drive through Safari in Ohio! How cool is that? We got to feed Bison (Momma's favorite) and Giraffes (Daddy's favorite) and alpacas and deer and some weird moose looking thing with out horns, zebras, some weird beastly looking thing, and my favorite; the longhorns! They were all so big, and so close (putting their mouths in the car to eat pellets and carrots out of a cup) and I freaked out a bit, but I loved it! We took along all of my friends too. It was some great fun! I even got to sit up front while we drove through, and shhh...don't tell anyone....Daddy let me drive the car!!! So here are some fun photos from our trip a couple of weekends ago.

The bison were nuts! This one is small, but there was a really big one who's head barely fit through the window, and at one point he tried to get to the carrots that were in the console when I was sitting on Momma's lap. Momma lost her cool and we were both practically laying down to get away from the bison and momma was hollering at daddy to go!!

This car has some of my friends in it!

Daddy LOVED feeding the giraffes. The second time we went through they weren't hungry anymore, so he was the lucky one, momma and I didn't get to feed them!

This longhorn was small compared to the other two we got to see! Momma and daddy were freaking out a little because his horns kept bumping the car!

The view up here was way better!

All three families rode in their own car so that we could all fit and get good views!

I sat in the middle, on the console. I didn't really want to feed any of the animals, but I did once or twice. The Alpacas were real gentle and not greedy like the Bison!

Daddy had a ball, don't let him fool ya! The bison, though large and eager, were surprisingly gentle and slow. But boy were their heads HUGE!!

There were a lot of small deer, and other deer like animals. Really they just got in the way and we had to throw food out the window off to the side to get them to move outta the way!

And like I said, Daddy let me drive!!

Fun at a New Park!

Momma and I went to try out a new park with our friends on Tuesday. It was so much fun! They had these little houses that we got to run around and play in! ARayRay liked playing on the swings and slides more than the little houses, but Ice and I really had a great time running around the mini town and playing hide and go seek, much to Momma's dismay!

I was pouting in the above picture. Momma couldn't quite figure out why, so Ice took a shot at trying to find out why I was sad! Frankly if they knew the truth they would've figured out that perhaps I was just trying to get attention from Ice. ;)Ice had a ton of fun too! He laughed the entire time! Momma had to take a few pictures of him because he is so cute and photogenic!

Here I am playing in a few of those tiny houses! Aren't these just grand? I want a little house like this in my back yard! Momma's gonna have to bat her eyes at Daddy (or perhaps Grandpa?) and convince one of them to build me a little play house outside!

And of course it must have windows and a door! I'll put a little table and chairs in my little house and take my tea sitting on the porch, because, of course, it must also have a front porch! Ok, so maybe Momma is the one who really wants the little house!

Knight in shinning armor.

The muffin and I surprised daddy today by taking him to the Henry Ford Museum to see a Castle Lego exhibit. It was fun, and there were so many great models that were amazing to see in person. I bought an annual pass and am looking forward to going back to see all of the attractions.

Visiting the Alpacas

This is an Alpaca. No, it's not a baby. No, the head isn't weird. This particular one just didn't get shorn all of the way, his head is next. We thought it looked like a bobble head.

Alpacas are like Mini Lama's. They are super soft and like to cuddle. You can read all sorts of interesting facts about them here. I took the Muffin to see the Alpacas at a local farm. She was able to get right next to them. There were three babies. Two one week old babies, and one two week old baby.

If you look real close here on the left you'll see a black baby Alpaca. Muffin had just per this one and jerked her hand away just as the picture was being taken. This Alpacas name was Thunder. He was just a week old. He weighed 13lbs when he was born. They gain a pound a day.

Muffin preferred to look at them from a safe distance.

She even liked peeking at them through the gates.

But she didn't like it at all when they came up to her. This little fawn colored one was two weeks old. He was pretty active and freaked the Muffin out. He followed her all over the place.

Mostly though she thought it was fun looking through the rails, picking up the dirt and rocks, playing with the gate and some weird little harness that she found. When we first got there she was the only child there. The owner picked up the two week old to introduce them. Muffin was very leery, and when the Alpaca started to nudge and sniff her, the Muffin kinda freaked out. But after the other kids from her playgroup arrived, and they showed interest in the Alpacas and the Muffin saw that it was ok to touch them, she didn't seem to mind petting them...as long as she went after them, and not the other way around.