Lots of animals

Sunday found us heading to the zoo that was in a nearby town. It was a nice zoo, but I really didn't take lots of pictures. The monkeys here look pretty much like the monkeys there!! They did have a few goats to pet and I got this really cute pic of Lauren - the resident animal lover!!

Here's the crew -

On the way home from the zoo, we passed a dairy farm in the area. Scott had taken the little boys by it when he was visiting a couple of years ago, so we all stopped in to see how it worked. The cows were on this big rotating milking machine and as their cycle ended, they stepped off and headed back out to the pasture. This wasn't like a big learning/feel-good kind of dairy. People were welcome to stop by and see it, but there wasn't a lot of explanation and questions/answers going on. (The two ladies who were working the cows didn't speak English!!)

Having been a lactating mother once upon a time, I really felt for these girls!! They were almost bursting with milk and they didn't seem to get a lot of relief even when their cycle was over.

Definitely a learning experience and a little bit of sympathy/empathy for the girls!!