Prairieland Dairy Farm Day 2012

As cub scout master Dave helped organize a trip to the dairy farm day. He was really excited when he found out about this event because he knew Linc would love it and because it was all FREE!!

 

We parked at a high school and then we took the bus to the dairy farm. We got off the bus and first thing we saw was a mini horse. Linc saw it and wanted to pet it. Next we stood in line for the tour of the dairy farm. As we waited in line to get on the trolley for the tour, I quickly grabbed some of the free ice cream for us to enjoy. It was delicious!!! We toured all around and were amazed at the facts that were shared about the cows and their dietary habits. We were pretty close to the cows and Dave was tempted to reach out and touch one...I told him not to though. After that we walked around to some of the booths and collected some free stuff. By then it was lunch time. We stood in the long line, which passed pretty quickly. Lunch included chips, carrots, a delicious beef sandwich with bbq sauce and all the chocolate, strawberry and regular milk you could drink! Dave probably drank over a gallon the whole day and Linc had quite a bit too! Oh and remember that wonderful lunch was FREE!

 

After lunch we went to the kids area and checked out the petting zoo. He was not afraid of touching the animals at all. When we got to the pig Linc snorted, maybe his own attempt to communicate with the pig. I think he liked the baby cow better than the big mommy cow, but he still gave them both a small pat. We saw a cow picture spot so of course we had Linc do his big smiles!

 

I think that Linc's favorite part of the day was playing in the corn pit! He could of stayed there all day. The corn was all over him, in his pants, shoes, top of his diaper...we found some when we got home in his pants. He played with the big rake, scooped it up and poured it out, walked in it and tried whatever else he could do. If I could have one of these at home I definitely would...maybe in the future. We played a ball toss game and both Dave and I won a Nebraska glass!

 Linc also took a go at milking a cow and was able to squeeze some water out of the utter...it was a fake cow of course. He did a little bowling, which was mainly him tossing the ball at the milk jugs. After all that fun Dave and Linc went to climb the hay castle and they made it all the way to the top. Linc liked climbing of course. Before we left, Dave and Linc took a ride on the tractor train. They had a lot of fun...Dave wanted me to go with them, but I told him I was not going to try to squat down in one of those little carts with my big belly so they went on their own.

 It was a long fun day! We went to stand in line to get on the bus back to our car, but I made a quick detour stop and got more ice cream for us to eat while we waited in that line. Someone was handing out these little milk pencil toppers and when Linc saw that I had it he wanted it. The silly little boy was so exhausted by that point that he fell asleep in his stroller...with his milk in his mouth. He slept for about an hour as we waited in line and took the bus ride back to our car. Our car was sooo dirty from the trip up and now that the mud was all dry we could really see just how dirty it was. Linc woke up as we were getting him in the car and he was once again his happy go lucky self. Can't wait til next year!