Our Day at Glacier Rock Farm

Yesterday I joined Jo on her end of the school year field trip to Glacier Rock Farm. Jo was excited about packing a brown bag lunch for the special day-long outing. It was sunny, breezy and 75 degrees - the perfect spring day for tromping around a farm.

Miss Lori was our guide and her two full-size and extremely docile golden retrievers tagged along with us. Jo stuck out from the crowd of bright yellow 4-5 yr olds because she decided to wear a blue tee instead of her yellow school shirt (that's 3 sizes too enormous). 

We picked up hens, touched ostrich and emu eggs, fed sweet grain to goats, sheep and llamas. Jo and each one of her classmates got to try her/his hand at milking Dottie the Dairy Cow. 

The kiddos had a pony ride and then played duck-duck-goose while the adults took turns on Misty the Horse.  Donny drove the tractor that pulled the hay wagon - fully loaded with 20 kids, 16 adults and the two golden retrievers. We all sat in the grass and passed around bunnies, chicks, ducklings, a chinchilla, hedgehog and two-week old kittens. Then we checked out the pot-belly pigs.

 Jo was thrilled to carry our lunch and drinks in the patch-clad Mescher Jansport backpack.  

We closed out the day with a second round of pony rides and another hay ride. Before boarding the bus we used the port-a-potty and washed up in the outdoor trough-style sink. And much to my surprise, Jo realized how happy all these animals were on the farm and made no mention of trying to smuggle one home with us.