Destination Moonshadow

Active Moms & Tots from Kent

We have had such a variety of ranch visits lately it has kept us too busy to write a new post, so here I'll have to cover the past week's schedule. 

It started last week with the sweetest couple, Gloria and Richard, who came in their RV on a road trip from CA.  We are a host destination for Harvest Hosts and have met some wonderful people.  Richard is a retired finish carpenter and insisted on helping us turn our re-purposed building into a hen house. 

What great timing for us to have a visit from someone with Richard's
skill and experience.  He installed a window in our future hen house, more
on the story of our re-purposed building conversion later~

As Gloria and Richard were leaving we had another van load of senior citizens showing up for a ranch tour from another local assisted living center.  We love seeing these folks staying active and getting out and about.  There is nothing like a bunch of cute cria running around to put a smile on anyone's face!

Monday we had a group from Active Moms and Tots of Kent.  This was a pretty large group all at once, but the kids were so well behaved, the alpacas were all willing to be quite social.
 

Nothing like a little willow leaves to entice the alpacas to come over
and say hi to the kids.

One of the moms, Kristen Jordan, took some wonderful photos of their visit with the kids interacting with the alpacas.  To see them all click on her name to link to her photo album on SmugBug.  This was one of my favorties.  Thought it was so cute how this little guy appeared to know exactly how he should be looking at this little cria's fleece.

Future alpaca breeder in training~

Today we had a visitor from Maine whose son was so excited about alpacas visiting a ranch was something he wanted to do while in Auburn, WA.  We learned they discovered where we were by coming up as one of the top things to do while visiting Auburn....got to love Google!  For us, we are thrilled with the range of people that are interested in visiting and learning about alpacas and are happy to have the opportunity to share what we are doing at Moonshadow.