Can you imagine how surprised I was to see a giant billboard on the side of the freeway advertising for the fair - in February? Who has a fair in February? So we waited until the Hubs had a day off and headed out to Indio, by the way it's not as close as you think - we were off by an hour. We had quite a lot of excitement, so I will do a few posts to include it all. This first is about the first thing we did at the fair, the free petting zoo.
Moo was so excited to see and pet the animals! When we got there, we found out that not only could you pet the animals, but for $1 you could feed them too! We also were amazed at the variety of animals in the petting zoo...zebra, yak, goats of many types, mini donkeys, pigs, odd species of bovine, kangaroo, turtle and some type of llama/elk looking thing that I never caught the name of. Moo got to feed and pet them all and she was loving it!
I was a little afraid that she would chicken out, she likes the idea of dogs but when we see one in public she NEVER wants to touch it. She likes cats, but that's about it. Last year at the fair she surprised me by petting a sheep and a rabbit, so I thought she might be persuaded to pet something if reminded of that. But she didn't need it. She dove right in and pet everything! She would go up to the fence and call it over so sweetly, "Come here little fella, I'm not going to hurt you...are you hungry? I've got some yummy food for you." She was so sweet and gentle to all of them and begged for more food to give them. She assured me that they all were starving, even though this was late in the afternoon and EVERYONE in the entire fair had already been through feeding them. Anyway, she had a blast petting everything and has now added baby goats, a barn and baby chicks to her birthday list. Go figure.
The miniature donkey, goats and yak were my favorite. Moo says she liked the yak the best. He was cute. I thought he was a baby buffalo when we first saw him. That's a picture of Moo petting him in the middle there. She says she liked feeling his soft hair and his horns. Good thing she didn't put one of those on her birthday list.
Can you imagine how surprised I was to see a giant billboard on the side of the freeway advertising for the fair - in February? Who has a fair in February? So we waited until the Hubs had a day off and headed out to Indio, by the way it's not as close as you think - we were off by an hour. We had quite a lot of excitement, so I will do a few posts to include it all. This first is about the first thing we did at the fair, the free petting zoo.
Moo was so excited to see and pet the animals! When we got there, we found out that not only could you pet the animals, but for $1 you could feed them too! We also were amazed at the variety of animals in the petting zoo...zebra, yak, goats of many types, mini donkeys, pigs, odd species of bovine, kangaroo, turtle and some type of llama/elk looking thing that I never caught the name of. Moo got to feed and pet them all and she was loving it!
I was a little afraid that she would chicken out, she likes the idea of dogs but when we see one in public she NEVER wants to touch it. She likes cats, but that's about it. Last year at the fair she surprised me by petting a sheep and a rabbit, so I thought she might be persuaded to pet something if reminded of that. But she didn't need it. She dove right in and pet everything! She would go up to the fence and call it over so sweetly, "Come here little fella, I'm not going to hurt you...are you hungry? I've got some yummy food for you." She was so sweet and gentle to all of them and begged for more food to give them. She assured me that they all were starving, even though this was late in the afternoon and EVERYONE in the entire fair had already been through feeding them. Anyway, she had a blast petting everything and has now added baby goats, a barn and baby chicks to her birthday list. Go figure.
The miniature donkey, goats and yak were my favorite. Moo says she liked the yak the best. He was cute. I thought he was a baby buffalo when we first saw him. That's a picture of Moo petting him in the middle there. She says she liked feeling his soft hair and his horns. Good thing she didn't put one of those on her birthday list.
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