Field trip!

The kids and I took a field trip this week with our home school group. I found out there are quite a few alpaca ranches in our area. I contacted on and set up a fied trip. A couple owns this ranch and love to share alpacas with everyone to share their knowledge. It was so cool! We learned a lot of things. Alpacas come in different colors and they breed them to be certain colors. They don't have hooves but instead have soft pads like dogs. They also have only 2 teeth on the bottom and they get long like rodent teeth so they have to shave them down sometimes. We also got to pet an alpaca and tough some of the wool they shaved in April. We saw some of the things they make out of the fur. It is softer than wool and warmer! The kids even got to pet a 3 week old baby called a cria. Even though it was a windy day the kids had a lot of fun learning.

On another note tonight Zack scored his first goal of the season!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yea for Zack! What a great ending to the season.