A pleasant visit to Schwallier's ...

Kelly and I were chatting last week and she mentioned that she had taken baby Brendan to a cute place with little goats and bunnies ... a place over on Alpine Avenue! I had never known of any place like she was describing in that location, so I got more information from her and decided that the kiddos and I simply MUST visit Schwallier's Country Basket!

Schwallier's is on the Northwest Corner of 9 mile and Alpine ... very easy to find ... and NO admission fee! Friday afternoon, immediately after picking the grandchildren up from Diana, we headed over to check it out.

These baby goats were so cute!

We walked inside the main building and were handed a free apple! We actually would have preferred a free donut, but received the apples with a smile anyway, and then purchased our donuts at the counter. 

Emma, Chris and Matthew are very good with animals of all kinds. There was quite a crowd of kids in the bunny pen, so we didn't stay there very long. Christopher at least got to pet this nice brown rabbit, but then something else caught their eye ... this very fun slide!

I think we spent a solid HOUR going down this slide. I didn't try it myself (!), but the kids told me it was very slippery and super fast. They have so much energy, these three! I was glad to see them running and playing and cracking up together. 

Emma and Matthew

 There was a coup of chickens and roosters as well, all strutting their stuff. We watched them for awhile and talked their kind of talk too ... cluck-cluck-cluck!

Emma and I strolled through the orchard quickly and Emma found an apple that she decided to feed to the goats ... 

The goat area was really really fun. I took lots of pictures here to demonstrate how the children were able to put feed into the tin basket and then wheel it on up to the top so that the goats could eat ... 

We did this over and over and over again ... mostly using the seed that had fallen on the ground, rather than spend 25 cents for a small handful of seed each and every time ... 

I'm so glad Kelly told me about this place! I never even knew it was here! The grandchildren were very appreciative of being able to experience the animals, the slide, and the great outdoors.