William's vacation, Day 2

Tuesday. We had to get up early because we had an hour drive. We had tickets reserved at the Red Barn Farm for a tour at 9 am and had arranged with Sally (the boys' nanny) to meet them there. Sarah had been there before with her boys and had said that William surely would like to see it and her boys would too. By pure chance Sarah's neighbor/friend Hanna with her three boys were the other people in our group and that was totally ok in this social distancing time.

Dennita, the owner, was a fun person. No question about it. She loves her animals. The animals all seem to have personalities. Ben Franklin, the turkey and his wife Martha Washington and the unmarried other lady turkey greeted us, begging for some food. Bacon Bits, the pig, were in the middle of steeling the geese's food until she got a treat herself. But she had to sit for it, which she did.

I can't possibly name all of the animals but here are some highlights. The 6month old emu was very nice and very soft to the touch. She children loved petting it.

Waiting for what might come.

Strange looking chickens.

And baby rabbits so very soft.

Outside were miniature horses, donkeys, goats and sheep, different kind of chickens, a big turtle, cows, peacocks, another emu ...

... and quails and their eggs. 

All were happy to get food. We had buckets with food for them.

When I had reserved the tickets I had made sure that we also would see the python. Sarah had made me aware of it that they didn't see it the first time and the boys were very eager. Dennita kept her promise and the boys were happy.

The snake belonged to her son and she took care of it for him while he was gone. She was not very fond of the snake and only showed us because we had asked. But she also sent me home with some of the quail eggs and about that later.

The tour took about one hour. Afterwards we drove to Sarah's house. We knew it was going to be a hot day. Sarah had set up the little splash pool for the children. Sally prepared some food for lunch which we ate outside.

The adults sat in the shade watching the boys splashing mightily. Wonder how the neighbors felt about the screaming with laughter. And yes, there is a VIDEO  (0:35)

We left when it was time for the little ones to take a nap. Caleb was very upset because he didn't want William and us to leave which was bittersweet.

I hardboiled the quail eggs. I have to wait to taste because I had promised all the boys that I would share. Only one had broken during the cooking. James ate it and said it was awful. May be it was bad and broken before cooking? We will never know.

At bedtime William said that he liked the day and especially spending time with his cousins.