Dairy Trip

I have missed SO many entries, because my computer began to slowly die and I could no longer transfer pictures to my computer. It finally bit the dust, so now I have a "new" hard drive, so I will try to catch up a little.

So, before summer, we went to the dairy farm for Jake's preschool field trip. I have been to this dairy about 5 times, but we had a "first" this visit. After the tour of seeing all of the bigger cows, we have the chance to go into the milking barn to show the kids how the cows are milked. This is high tech, so there is no stool and pail. Oh no, we are talking about 12 cows backed in to these raised stalls (this position will come into play soon) and then they are hooked up to the milking machine. The kids can see the cows up close, feel the milk, see the huge tank it goes into & all sorts of stuff. So, when you walk in the door to the milking area, you are in this small rectangle galley with cow tail swinging slightly over your head. We are warned before that we may get pooped on, so to not scream and just step aside. Ummm, yeah...did I mention we had 3 and 4 year old children with their moms? We are bringing up the rear of the group & as Eden goes through the door, she gets hammered by poo. If the nice lady taking us on the tour had not scooped her up, she would have been completely covered! I don't know what made her scream louder, the cow unloading on her or the stranger grabbing her, but I tried to grab her to take her out before we caused a stampede. I cleaned her up the best I could with baby wipes and cleaned the little bit off the rest of us, too. Whenever you ask her about the dairy, she will tell you, "A cow pooped on me." And yet, she is still smiling with her "I love milk" sticker!