The kids did their church camps during the first few days of Spring Break. When they got back, I took a day off work so that Amber could redeem her
birthday present to milk a cow. We drove a couple hours west to La Grange to the Jersey Barnyard.
It's a working dairy farm, and we got to take the full tour. We started off with some of their smaller animals, like goats, chickens, and rabbits.
We paid a little extra for bottles of milk to bottle feed the calves.
They had two groups and we had to wait a while, but they gave us free Blue Bell ice cream cones for our trouble. After our wait, we took a hayride to the cow milking area.
The farmer brought one of the cows, gave us a lesson about the cows, and taught us how to milk it.
Carmen took to it naturally of course.
She got the milk flowing for the rest of us.
It was a fun excursion, and Amber was happy to finally get her wish.
We bought some raw milk to take home with us. I was hoping it would be amazing, but other than a slightly different flavor, it wasn't too much different than HEB whole milk.
