Farm - Cows - Milk - Hay

It's been a tid bit of time since my last post. We've been a wee busy what with moving my mom to my sisters house, then moving all her stuff to my grandma's house and THEN moving all of our stuff into her house. Catch all that?? Phew! Anyway, a friend of mine from our previous ward (Galveston 1st Ward, oh how we miss you!!!), Marie had some extra tickets to Superstition Farm and I was lucky enough to score them. It was a really fun time, in fact I think I may have enjoyed it more than my little ones. I was truly fascinated by the tour they gave us and all the information that I never knew about LIKE: they produce about 600 gallons of milk a DAY, there's a special science/art to keeping the flies to a minimum (I was impressed for so much cow poop there were hardly any flies at all), they milk their cows 24 hours a day (meaning there is always a farmer awake to milk them, geez louise), a cows udder can weigh as much as 60 pounds when it's completely full of milk (ummmmm WHAT??!!), that being said the cows will automatically line up to be milked when they see the farmer coming because they want the relief, AND a cow has to be pregnant or have given birth in order to produce milk (just like humans, huh I never knew, I just thought all cows made milk, weird). Anyway, there was a lot more but I thought those to be the MOST impressive :)

Part of the tour included a sampling of their milk with a fun flavored syrup and some of their homemade ice cream. It was all very delicious and I highly recommend the farm tour. Thanks again Marie for including us on this adventure!!

This sweet bunny just sat on that table and let all the kids pet him

Marie, Reagan and Eli

"Strawberry" milk mustache

Hay ride tour of the cows

My sweet babies :)


It was a great day!