Animal Sanctuary and the UP house.

For the past couple of weeks Francesco has been volunteering at the Ching Animal Sanctuary in Herriman. He wanted me to go with him on one of his next visits because he knew I would love being around all the animals. Well, he was right. I do love animals after all.

I helped him fill up the animal's water bowls and despite leaving smelling like a cows butt and having mud and who knows what else all over my pants, I loved it!

I have since been trying to convince Francesco that we need to live out in the middle of no where so we can have plenty of land to be able to have as many animals as we would like (for my pleasure), some of which would be laying hens, and then we could possibly adopt Donald and Daisy (pictures to follow), as well as have an extensive year-round garden (have you seen this "Winter Harvest at Yale's Greenhouse" video? http://youtu.be/IV7sfAwSjQQ ). Anyway, I'm not making progress on that front.

Daisy (Mama) and Donald (baby). They were incredibly sweet! They loved getting petted and scratched. You know how cats and dogs will sometimes bow their head down a little and then raise themselves up a bit so you will pet their head? These two did that!

I forgot this guys name but this is how he sometimes sleeps, facing the building like he is in a time-out. 

This little guy apparently wanted attention. He approached me and also loved getting petted and his back scratched. He even leaned into me with his eyes closed while I scratched his back. I left the sanctuary loving goats. 

On the way home we stopped by to see the house that was built to resemble the house from Disney's UP.  Crazy color scheme but it was pretty cool!