Charming Animals

Monday we went to Charmingfare Farm to take a looksie at the animals! My work was offering discount season passes, so we took advantage of that, so now we only have to go one more time before it pays for itself. Sweet! Unfortunately Monday is the only day the rides (hay ride, tractor ride, horse rides) aren't running... so we'll go back another day soon, although I do feel bad for some of the animals because there is only one of them.. like the camel, and the wolf. Don't wolves run in packs? poor guy must miss the rest of his gang! Everyone else had at least one other companion, but I still think it must get pretty lonely for them.

I think the kids favorite was the raccoons! One of them stood up on it's hind legs, so when it got down Caden told him to "stand up Raccoon!" After that, Cole kept saying it over and over and.... well you get my point! Then one of the crazy 'coons stood on a log and pulled himself onto the ceiling of the cage and walked around on the ceiling, the kids thought that was pretty spectacular!

And then there were the goats!! They are crazy animals! and when you have a bag of grain in their hand they could not get any closer to you! They actually kept sneaking out of their enclosure! There are two gates you have to go through to get into it, but somehow they were able to sneak into the chute you have to go through and when anyone would enter they'd escape! Rob and the kids ended up hopping over the fence to get out in order not to let any escape.. I barely made it through the normal way with Cora.

Here they are all lined up begging for food!

Cole steps right up to feed them!

and pat them!

Here the boys are getting "attacked" by hungry goats, and Rob is at their side trying to throw grain the other way to get them away!