Field Trip to Glory Ranch

Judah and Gideon and I spent part of our school day at the alpaca farm. We went to check on Delight, Destiny, and Rico Arcani. We also wanted to see the stud that Delight is currently being bred with. His name is Rico de Peru and he is one studly alpaca! Here are a few pictures of him.





Delight seems to like Rico.

That's a good thing since they are making a new baby alpaca together. I can't wait to see what this little one looks like when he/she is born. :)
That baby next to Delight is Glory Ranchs' newest cria. Her name is Beauty and she is indeed beautiful!




Our male, Rico Arcani, is looking quite fine and poofy himself.


Poofy is good. :)


We like poofy!


The boys were super excited to see the alpacas.

Alpacas are herd animals. They don't trust people very much. It is interesting to see that they find kids less of a threat. The boys ran to greet Destiny and none of the big girls got out of the way.
I approached considerably slower and more respectfully and nobody bolted when I went through either.



DESTINY!!


Judah kept telling her over and over what beautiful "fur" (it's called fleece) she had and how she was going to make us money. The really cute part was that he was saying it over and over in a baby talk way. :)

Being a bottle baby she loves to suck on anything she can.


She is also not afraid of humans like most alpacas. She let the boys and me pet her and pet her.


Gideon wanted to run with her. (read: chase her)


They also fed her some hay.


Sparkle and Sunshine would NOT go away! They clearly wanted their picture taken too. hehe!

Our sweet little investment. She's really precious!


They never want to leave the farm. Soon Delight, Destiny, and Rico Arcani will come and live here and the boys can see them all the time. Yeah!


We can't wait.