Melissa's Trip to Africa: Summer 2011: Cosley zoo with the Hume's.

SO the first day of official summer, we got an invite to Cosley zoo from our friends the Hume's. Don't get too excited about the word zoo... i'm not sure why they call it that, since it is a farm. BUT it is a very important place in our town and I have a lot of memeories there as a kid, so i was super excited to take Lola there.

My favorite memory was when my mom signed Kevin and i up for a how to be a farmer class. I don't remember much other then being less then thrilled about sitting in a hot classroom in the stinky barn for a lot of the day. However, one of my best memories is the day they told us to clean up the pigs. Kevin and i were very curious individuals and always wanting to learn you know... SO the subject of riding pigs came up in our conversation. WHICH clearly led to an experiment. It also ended very badly. I can tell you, so you don't have to try it yourself, that pigs do NOT in fact, enjoy being sat on.. much less rode. OOPS... Needless to say the "zoo" people were less the thrilled with our scientific experiment and wanted to send us home. My mom then informed them that was exactly what we were hoping for and she was sure that they could come up with a better punishment. AND they did. So Kevin and i spent the remainder of the day scooping cow and horse poop, having the best time ever.. because you can't break our spirit. THAT was FUNNY!

SO everytime i go there, i think about riding pigs and it makes me happy to be there even before i get in the gate. Our trip was an excellent time, but don't worry we didn't put Lola on a pig... yet ;)

Here are some pictures of Lola and her friends David and Bryn.