Animals Anyone?

Today for playgroup, we went to a place called Crowe's Nest Farm. We were SO excited about it! My girls LOVE animals...especially Lucy. So when we got there and had to FIRST eat lunch...Lucy was not happy about it! But she reluctantly came along and did a little bit of eating and a lot of running around. When it was time to go for our little tour, we were so excited!! First we started off in the barn where they had pools with little turtles and salamanders. Then in another corner they had a room with snakes and reptiles. Ick! Lucy pretty much felt the way I did! But as we were leaving she said, "Iss(it's) not scary!" Then I didn't even bother taking any pictures of the tarantulas and hissing cock roaches! Yuck! Then we went over for a fun little hay ride. We got to see ostriches and even a bunch of their eggs! It was fun. Janae, Sadie and Evka.Averee, Lucy, Jazlynn.We stopped by to see the Longhorns (woohoo!) and once again, Lucy had no reservations! Don't worry, I made her stand back after that! Scary! They were fighting over the food and everything, and she is just laughing! Lucy, Longhorn, Jazlynn.Vivian and Sadie.They loved seeing the baby animals! Oh look, a CUTE picture of the two of them together! :) Lucy would not turn around (as she is standing there she is saying, "No turn around." and Sadie smiled for a second but I guess I wasn't fast enough!) After that we went over and saw a demonstration of how they milk a cow. The kids were fascinated! It was fun! They loved seeing the milk come out! When we were leaving and Lucy caught my eye, her face lit up and she cheered and clapped! She was in Heaven! We got to see so many animals! (Sorry there aren't a ton of pictures of Sadie; 1) she was off with the big kids being so independent and 2) I have to stay close to Lucy since she will try to climb right in with any of the animals! Plus Sadie would look and then be off to the next thing, whereas Lucy, well she could stay there forever. We even went into the Fairy woods. They had little fairy statues down this trail in the trees. Funny and cute.

Lucy, Sadie, Evka, Jazlynn, Janae, and Vivian.

They had a butterfly house, which we saw 3 total! One was flying around, one got smashed by a kid knocking over a garden globe thing and it fell on it, and one was on the ceiling. Not too exciting! Sadie loved seeing the owls, but I didn't get a picture of it. I didn't realize she liked it so much until she kept talking about it today. Oops. Then the trip ended with a "tragedy." We were watching two desert tortoises "wrestle," when the one on bottom got annoyed and turned around and was pushing the one into the side of the cage and final pushed him over! I had never seen turtles be so active before! But the kids were upset! Especially Lucy! She was crying and saying, "Oh NO! Turtle fell down!! Turtle needs a band aid!" She was so upset! So we went and told one of the farmers and she said that indeed they are mating and she was just out there 5 minutes ago to flip him back over! Funny! We had a blast! We came home and were pooped! We had such a fun time at the farm! We made the mistake of talking to them about it before bed, and they just were to excited and then had the hardest time falling asleep! Even after such a long day! It was just too fun!