Saturday, October 11, 2008

Green Meadows Petting Zoo

Today we went with a large group of friends to Green Meadows Petting Zoo. My brother-in-law said this was like a Petting Zoo on Steroids because there were so many animals and so much to do! The regular price for ages 3 and up is about $22, which is way too steep, so we got a group discount of $10/per person for a group of 20 or more. There were probably over 50 of us in our group!

We had a great time! There were so many animals and the grounds were really pretty too. We started the day with a walking tour guide, Janet, who was an older lady and a little too stern sometimes. We went up to various animal pins and she would tell us about the animals and some of them we actually got to get up close and personal and even hold some of them.

Farmer Ted, I mean Andrew walked up to every animal there and gently picked it up and all the kids ran over to touch. Peyton finally got her nerve up to hold a few of them.

We saw this ugly Llama that I thought had Buck teeth, but when we actually got closer, I realized that the teeth were his lower teeth. He was ugly!

We rode horses, rode a train, had a hayride and ended the day at a Pumpkin Patch - ALL of which was included in our cheap $10!! Every paying guest even got to take a pumpkin home. We were tired when we left...and STINKY too!



The ugly Llama

Peyton holding a chicken


DUCK



(baby) DUCK



GOOSE!!


On the train with friends



Riding a horse all by myself. After doing this at Paw Paw's house, Peyton is a Pro at horseback riding!



Peyton LOVED these goats!! They were really cute! They would come up to us and start licking our arms from behind if we were squatting down with the kids looking at another goat. There were several baby goats and Peyton loved them, too.




She made friends with this one!




Peyton feeding a baby goat



Driving a tractor - not really



Andrew milking a cow. We all tried this - even me! Peyton got in line to do it twice, but chickened out





















2 comments:

Diane said...

That looks like so much fun. We never went there but I wish now that we had. Adorable pictures

BRENTandROBIN + three said...

Very cool pictures and posts. We can't wait to see ya'll in a couple of weeks!