Another stop on our little weekend vacation involved a trip to a nearby Alpaca ranch! Yup, there was one just a few miles away from my parents' cabin in Deer River. We gave them a call and they were happy to give us our own private tour! We spent an hour there. We met all of their animals (they are named after the characters in Prince Caspian, from CS Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia) and had the chance to pet one. It was inspiring. Alpacas are neat in both senses of the word: they are fun to watch (when they run, the spring up in the air....kind of like Peppe Le Pieu), and they are very neat and clean animals. Mike and I agreed: we want to have a little hobby farm somewhere and raise a few of these. The only downside is the cost. For a breeding female, the cost runs anywhere from $10,000 to $25,000!!!! Good God! We wouldn't even buy a car that cost that much! A gelded male is only around $3,000, so I guess that will have to do. Perhaps they will come down in price when we finally want to buy them. They are still a relatively new commodity.
Julia just loved meeting the Alpacas. Mike and I loved everything about them. Their fur is a much softer and heavier fiber than wool. It isn't itchy. I bought a few skeins of yarn from them to knit myself an alpaca scarf. I made the title of this blog into a link to the website of the alpaca farm we visited. (Wow..that was techno speak. !!! Cousin Dan, the computer wizard, should be proud of me for that.) (By the way, Dan, thanks for the awesome ride on your jet ski.........)
Thanks for checking the blog! We'll post the rest of the vacation pictures tomorrow (there are quite a few more.)
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