Today we went down to Fair Oaks Farms here in Indiana. It should have only taken us about 30 min. to get there, but the freakin traffic/construction on I65 made it be close to an hour! It was so dumb how slow it was to get to one lane. I noticed it was going to be that way on the return home, too! I've heard great things about the place and was wanting to go there. 
First we checked out the adventure building with really neat displays. We got our tickets for the bus tour out to the barns and milking barn, so we had about 35 min until our bus boarding. We had fun playing with all the displays and maybe E learned a little of something.
We saw the cool 4D movie. Ethan was excited about the glasses we had to wear. He didn't know what was about to come. They had the cool chairs like Disney to make it truly 4D. They shook, they blew air on us and then even sprayed us with milk from a cow! It was just a mist of water, but it was surprising. Towards the end of the movie, E buried his head in me because he was scared of what this cartoon cow was gonna spray on us. It was awesome 3D movie, too!
After we saw the movie it led us through an exhibit about the feed. We still had time before the boarding of the bus so we walked over to the birthing barn. They have a stoplight signaling if a calf was going to be barn soon, it was on red the whole time we were there. We saw calves that were only an hour old, though. (they were born when we were stuck in that traffic on 65!!)
We walked back to get on the bus next. It was a school bus but they extended the windows lower so the kids so easily see out. We saw how they make their feed and all the hay bales. We went through a huge cow barn. We also saw a lot of calves that were separated outside.
We saw the milking barn with the 'dairy-go-round' They showed a movie about it. They pointed out to feel the pipes that were pumping the milk out of the cows, E liked this part. It was warm and the piping above it was how cold it was as it when out to a milk truck.
Ethan feeling the pipes warm and cold
We then took a different bus back to the cheese factory. We had to try out their ice cream next. I got a shake, T got a brownie sundae, and E a vanilla kiddie cone, of course.
T wanted to pick out some cheese, too. We got Cheddar, Muenster & Calico. They let us sample the cheeses, too. E asked to try the 'monster cheese'. The worker girl laughed at that saying we don't have any monsters here!
I let him pick out a little souvenir- a little cow that moos. He named it 'moo cow'.
There was a kid play area that was mostly still closed for the season. We went through this neat maze. E loved it, but it was hard. I gave up. Then he had to check on the tractor slide playset.
Ethan's favorite part was seeing the newborn calves.
We saw so many cows! Wow, so so many there!
The weather outside was only in the 40s, still kind of cold. We were only outside at the end playing on the kid area. It was a fun day.
We went to Home Depot and Meijer before going home. We have the gift for a party tomorrow. Ethan gets to go to another party at the jump place.
I got a new shelving system for E's room, it is 9 cubes. It should fit a lot of his toys and books. I'm going to attempt to put it together myself. T is making another bean bag game for someone, but maybe he will help out.
