weekend sites (mostly alpacas)

These are a few of the sites from the weekend.  Daffodils are in bloom everywhere!  Swamp cabbage is thriving.

This "Family Farm" was a crummy place where we stopped just to see what it was all about and because it was lunchtime.  I say crummy because any place that charges $3 for a small bottle of water is some kind of scam in my book.  Not even airports charge that much.  We had lunch there and the pulled pork sandwiches were not bad, but I would not go back.  They tried to play up the fresh vegetable theme, but there were just too many cheap knick knacks around, as well as a petting zoo, playgrounds, gift shop, etc.

 The alpaca farm was more fun.  Nobody there, we just walked around and talked to the alpacas who were very friendly.

 I can' figure out if they are more like sheep or camels or goats!

 They ran over to the fence to greet us ... seemingly having to turn their heads to see us.

With parted hoofs like pigs (John says these are the "unclean" animals of the Bible, but we can't remember the correct name for them).  [UPDATE - I remembered, these are "cloved" (divided) hoofs.  We had the Bible interpretation wrong too.  The cloved hoofed animals that chew their cud are the clean ones.  I suppose that these alpacas chew their cud.  They were eating a lot of grass.  HERE is the Bible verse.]  I don't know that I would want to eat one of these animals; they look and act so much like pets.

 They also have two little buck teeth protruding from their mouths that look like great smiles and go with the hooved feet.  John wanted to touch one, but he didn't.  Guess he was scared of those buck teeth.

 This is the house that goes with the alpaca farm.

 And one of the barns.  A very well kept place.  There are also bed and breakfasts there, so you could go to the alpaca farm for a farm experience vacation!  I think you can have your wedding there too.

 Goldfish at the Alpaca farm.

 A Vietnam Helicopter on display at the Butler County Airport.

 Some of the distinctively yellow wisteria bushes that are also everywhere in bloom now.

 A drained lake where John went fishing once ...

 Pennsylvania countryside.