The Pizza Farm

The kids at the "pizza farm".

On Wednesday, the 24th, we took a field trip to "the pizza farm" with a homeschool group that I have recently become a part of. Our understanding of this "farm" was that we would be served a pizza lunch and then we got to be a part of a "working" farm and see where the ingredients from a pizza come from, ie cheese from a dairy cow, tomato's in the garden, olives from a tree, the wheat in the crust etc. I think the whole group (the adults anyway) were disappointed in the "pizza farm".

Some of the homeschool group.

Our pizza lunch was frozen Tostino pizza's, one slice each, and a box of Hi-C orange to drink. It really was quite humorous once we all got over the shock. The only redeeming factor in that $5 lunch was that the proceeds were going to help the Denver Rescue Mission. The leader of the group did apologize to me about the whole thing and she said that she got her info off of their website and they were definitely misleading.

The pizza lunch.

I believe the kids still had a fun time. They got to see many farm animals and they got to feed a cow, pig, goats, llama's, and even a donkey. They got to run on a Hay Maze, and we got a wagon ride. They also got the educational tour of where the pizza ingredients come from, I can't comment on that part of the tour because I had to go sit in the vehicle because one of my children had a melt down.

The Wagon Ride

The Hay Maze

Feeding some animals

After the pizza farm, we had to stop by a Burger King and get us a snack! The "pizza farm" is so close to the Wyoming border, we then decided we would hit two states in one day! We figured the kids would have fun saying that they went to Wyoming that day. On the 20 mile drive from Wellington to the border, we saw scores of antelope. I have never seen antelope in the wild, Theresa informed me that it is because I've never looked for them. (Which I do have to say I am usually reading or sleeping when I am traveling.)





After we stopped and got some pictures of the antelope, I was trying to keep my two youngest awake so we could get a picture at the Welcome to Wyoming sign. My plan was to have them look for more antelope and count them. Landon started really looking and he excitedly yelled, "Look! There are... what are they called?" I looked over, chuckled, and said, "Cows honey, those are called cows." He said, "Oh, I thought they were black deer." :-D I think he meant antelope.

Some of the antelope we saw.

We didn't get a picture by the Wyoming sign because of construction, so all we really got to do was say, "Kids we're in Wyoming.....Kid's we're leaving Wyoming." The day ended with us being exhausted and us having some great, quality time together.