THURSDAYS PICTURES!!!!!

We went to Mayfields to watch how they made milk and ice cream. This is the week they were updating the ice cream machines, so we didn't see that being made. But we saw them making the bottles for the milk and filling them with milk. It was very interesting. BUT, we had to wear the above weird hats. The men with beards also had to wear one on their beards. We were all funny looking, especially the men. After the tour, we were allowed to purchase ice cream. Get this! A HUGE single was $1. You couldn't eat it all. But, if you wanted, a double was only $2. The ice cream had Clumpies AND Ben & Jerry's beat by a mile. We also got a jug of chocolate milk (looks like the Chugs in the store). The milk tasted TERRIBLE. But we drank it because we paid $.75 for it (cheapos!). Since I can't figure out how to load the pictures in the order I want, the second picture is from Mayfields. The first picture is from The Lost Sea.

The Lost Sea is a cave walk (about 1 hour tour) with a boat ride in the bottom of the cave. There were rainbow trout in the lake that the tour guide fed while we floated around them. They jumped about a foot out of the water. It was so cool to see. Elyse was hanging on for dear life. She didn't want to get in the boat at all. BUT, standing on shore by herself was even more scary, so she got in and it was white knuckle time.

The climb back up the cave about killed me. There were three stops along the way that more than me took advantage of. The kids ran ahead of me until Elyse realized that I was still at the bottom. They did come back and get me. They were afraid I was going to leave them. Who was leaving who I might ask?

Anyway - enough of this blogging for now. Will write more adventures later! BTW, no throwing up today for the second day in a row - YEAH! Our discovery - we drug him 45 minutes before we leave for each trip and we don't have a problem. In the mornings, I wake him enough to shove a spoonful of applesauce with the pill in the center into his mouth. Then he goes back to sleep for a few more minutes. That has worked for two days now. YEAH!