The Heefner Family: Grant's Farm

A few weeks ago, we went to Grant's Farm, finally! We had been hearing about it forever, and just never gotten there. It was really fun...long tram ride through most of the land, which was decorated for Halloween, petting zoo, elephants, camels, donkeys, lots of other stuff, too, and free beer for Nile (and not just a little cup, either! They give you a big aluminum bottle of it plus 2 free glasses). The Clydesdales were beautiful, though I only got one picture. And there was a charming little area to eat, as well. My favorite part was watching the kids pet/feed the little goats...more to come on that:) My other favorite part was that admission is free, except for parking.

Sorry, mom, the horse put his head down right when I took the picture:(

Cool Halloween decorations!

Daddy and Josie on the tram ride

Blurry picture, but I love my little guy's face while he was daydreaming.

We took a picture of Big Fred for our Texas cousins:)

The goats...getting acquainted.

This is out of order, but after about 15 minutes with the goats (there were literally about 40 of them in this huge pen), I realized Gabe was the only one who hadn't had any interaction with the goats:) He was so funny about it ("No, I'm not scared of them. I just don't really want to pet them")...finally, he found one he thought would be safe to pet. It was asleep. That's why he chose it. Hilarious. So, as he crouches down beside it, I get ready to take a picture. Unbeknownst to him, a different little goat is coming up behind him, and I start laughing so hard I can't take the picture, but Gabe has no idea why I'm laughing. This other little goat puts his head right up under Gabe's arm, just butts right in and scares Gabe half to death. It was the funniest thing I have seen in a long time. I am so mad that I couldn't stop laughing and get the picture taken. I was doubled over-we were all cracking up. Anyway, this is Gabe and his sleeping goat:)

Josie did really well feeding the goats at first, but then the aggressive ones started jumping up on her, and almost knocked her over. Their hooves came up to her shoulders, of course, and they were face to face. She then said, "I think I'd like to go out of here, now, mommy". So cute. One started nibbling on my leg and jumped up on me, too. I may have let out a startled little scream that made some passersby laugh at me. I didn't really love them, either.

Seth looks like he is enjoying this, but informed me later that he didn't really like the goats:) What can I say, we are dog people. And we like to LOOK at other animals.