Friday, February 28, 2014
Party Animals
Earlier this month (February 2014) I received an email from a friend. She told me that she was having a farm themed birthday party for her 2 year old and requested that I bring some alpacas to the event. I was intrigued and immediately thought of my very well mannered and laid back female, Crescendo. She told me that the party would be at her house, there would be no other animals, and she would have a fenced off area for the alpacas. After hearing this, I agreed to bring some animals.
The afternoon of the party my sister Sasha and I loaded up Crescendo and her daughter, Aria, in the minivan and set off. We arrived in the neighborhood and found a parking spot 1/2 a block from the house. As we were walking the alpacas along the sidewalk up to the house, two neighbor ladies came out and expressed their delight about seeing their "favorite animal" walking through their neighborhood! We posed for some photos with the ladies before we approached the house.
As we came up the driveway the owner came out and ushered us INSIDE THE HOUSE! I was still assuming we were just going through the house to the back yard but, nope, we stopped at a patch of fake grass and a fence that was about 1 foot tall in the house. My initial thought was "Girls, you had better NOT relieve your bladders in their nice house!" The children fed the alpacas apples and Crescendo cushed and let them pet her! Everyone wanted photos and the alpaca behaved remarkably! Aria was a little freaked out, but she stood there pretty well (aside from kicking the wall two times).
It was a great experience for the people at the party, the alpacas, and for myself! The lady who hosted the party was thrilled with how well it went! Who knew - alpacas are party animals!