MOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

So this Wednesday I got to something that I have ALWAYS wanted to do!!!

I milked a Cow.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know it seems kind of silly, but I really have always wanted to, and now I finally have!

Durk has some friends (well, they're mine now too...), Curtis and Allison, who are dating, and Curtis's family lives on the edge of town. They have a few animals (a dog, cat, chickens, and 3 cows). They have a bull, a Jersey milk cow, and a little baby calf...SOOOOO cute!!! When I found out that they had a cow, and that they milk it by hand, I reallllllly wanted to go and milk it. Since they'd been wanting to anyways, we decided to go on a double date to milk the cow!

We went over to Curtis's house around 6:30, suited up in coveralls...

(Allison and I in our coveralls...)

(Me, Durk, Allison, Curtis...I felt like the odd one out in my blue)


...then we headed outside to get ready to milk.


This is me meeting the cows:

This is the bull. I don't remember his name.

Everytime I turned away he would try to eat me.


This is Isabelle, the calf.

She was so cute, and had the cutest little moo ever!

I liked her a lot. :)

Then we brought Betsy in and milked! I actually did really well!

I've always heard people talk about how it's harder than you expect, but I didn't think it was bad at all!

Granted, I wasn't amazing at it...I wasn't as fast as Curtis (who's been milking practically his whole life.),

...and I missed the bucket a few times,

but overall I think I did pretty darn good for my first time!


After we finished milking, we put some of the milk in a pan for the cat, and some more into a bottle for Isabella, and I got to feed it to her!

She downed that bottle SO fast!

After she finished the bottle, they told me to let her suck on my fingers. I was a little nervous about sticking my hand into the mouth of an animal like that, but it was actually really cool. Calves don't have teeth on top, and their tongue covers up their bottom teeth when they suck, so it didn't hurt at all. It just felt funny to have her suck on my hand. For whatever reason, I didn't expect my hand to be slimy when I pulled it out, but cow spit mixed with fresh milk makes for a pretty slimy mess (sorry, no pictures of my slimy hand)!

The only thing that I didn't do was taste the fresh milk. I'm kind of ok with that though. Most people say that milk fresh from the cow is soooooo good, but I really like my milk cold, so I didn't know if I'd like it or not. Anyways, we strained it, took it inside and then strained it again, then came back into town and ate, hitting up the free stuff and discounts on our starving student cards.

All in all, a SUPER fun date night!