Moo....!

Yesterday we took our annual trip to the Pennsylvania Farm Show. Fun times had by all.

First, we park the car, and get a bus ride over to the Farm Show Complex. Sure beats walking! The boys love the bus ride. They think it's so cool. Then after dodging all the smokers standing outside the entrance, we finally arrive inside and we are instantly greeted by the sweet smell of animal poop! "What's that smell?" the boys ask. "It's poop!" we answer. Then we ride the escalator up, and then down to enter the area where they have the cows displayed. The boys love to pet the cows. I had Ella in a carrier, facing outwards so she could see the sights. She wasn't very interested in the cows.
Then we went to the goat and sheep area. We had to stop at every pen that had a goat within touching distance so the boys could pet them. Owen announced that we needed to buy a goat. We asked him where we'd keep it, and he never came up with an answer, so the conversation was dropped. Then it was off to the rabbit exhibit. This was where Ella finally got VERY interested in what she was seeing! She loved looking at the bunnies (I think she may have thought they were cats, which she adores!) and tried to reach out and touch them! It was very sweet to watch her expressions and hear her noises! After the bunnies, we went to see the chickens/ducks. We hit that arena just in time to watch the baby duck show...baby ducks go up a ramp that's set in a water table, get some food, and go down a slide. The kids just love it! And those little ducklings are just so cute, you wanna squeeze them! We also saw the "peeps" in the incubator hatching. Ella got to go face-to-face with a rooster, and Cole got to feed a chicken by hand. Owen was too scared to feed the chicken, but Cole thought that was the best part of the whole day.
Then we walked around the exhibits, and the boys got to play with some recycled plastic and create waterways with it. They love anything that involves getting messy! Afterwards we had some lunch and caught the bus ride back to the parking lot to go home.
I'm sure later today or sometime in the very near future, the boys will begin asking when we can go back to the Farm Show. Maybe we have some future FFAs in our house?!