Grant's Farm

This past Saturday we went to a place here in St. Louis called Grant's Farm. It's named after President Ulysses S. Grant. When you get there you get on a tram and it takes you for a scenic route though the farm. As you are riding on the tram a guy tells the history behind the farm.  On the ride we got to see Pres. Grant's cabin and a lot of fun animals like, zebras, red deer, bison, Oreo cows, elk, antelope, ducks and more! (Out of all the animals we saw Kambri went crazy when she saw the ducks...who'd a thought a small little duck would make her so happy!)

One of the animals you see on the tram ride

Grant's Farm is owned by the Anheuser-Busch family and is the home to all the Budweiser Clydesdale's.  I didn't get any pictures of them but they are beautiful horses!

The tram dropped us off here....we had never been here before so we didn't know what to expect!

But to our surprise it was a lot of fun and we really had a good time...except one minor happening that included a goat, a finger, and lots of blood!

First stop was FEEDING THE GOATS!

Kambri was having a good time and loved watching this crazy animal drink a bottle!

She seriously did not stop smiling!

I was trying to capture the moment of Kambri feeding these "cute" little goats....I'm bent down taking pictures and I have a goat on my left side chewing on my hair and a goat on the other side grabbing my sweater. I guess I was warned, they did have signs outside the fences that said caution we may bite!

As you can see by these pictures, the goats were munching on Kambri's sweater too!

This is where the blood comes into play....see this goat, well it was chewing on Jordan's shirt and a man behind Jordan said "I think this goat is having your shirt for lunch" and so I stood up and went back there to see if Jordan had a hole in his shirt, and next thing we knew Kambri had blood running down her hand and she was balling! One of those darn goats bit her finger!!!

We went into the first aid room and Kambri got all doctored up!

I hope she isn't traumatized by goats now! It actually bit through her finger nail and so it was kind of nasty!

The next on our adventure was to see the elephant show. The elephants danced, blew up balloons, balanced balls...it was pretty neat to watch so close!

We had to stop and feed the ducks on our way to the camels and Kambri did NOT want us to leave the ducks!

Feeding the Camels

The camels mouth feels like Jordan's face when he's slightly scruffy...in other words the camel has a sandpaper face! :)

Feeding the llamas

After we fed the animals we went and watched another show. I didn't realize just how smart parrots really are....they had these parrots putting puzzles together, roller skating, doing MATH...it was crazy!

Kambri was really enjoying it!

That concludes our trip to Grant's Farm! Hope you enjoyed!