It's time out for another "Mom Blooper". Travel can lead you to so many adventures, including unexpected ones. People always joke about the ultimate excuse "the dog ate my homework." Somehow family travel led me to claiming "the goat ate my daughter's snow cone ticket."
It all starts with a casual family outing to Grant's Farm, a family friendly attraction in St. Louis, MO. It's a great deal - free admission to the park, free tram ride to tour the deer park, a beer garden with free tastings, and free animal shows. The Busch family, the family who owned the Anheuser-Busch company, owns 281 acre Grant's Farm. You can see the famous Clydesdale horses and carriage houses even without the $25 Clydesdale Experience Tour. The park offers a 1.5 hour estate grounds tour "Estate Tour" for $25, but you can spend much longer just walking the grounds and seeing animals.
In this wonderful land of free fun, there's an opportunity to buy a bundled "fun pass" for only $6. Here's the beginning of "the goat ate my daughter's snow cone ticket" claim. The pass includes one carousel ride, two goat feeding bottles, and one snow cone. Who could pass up such a combination?
My daughter entered the goat feeding area with two bottles and her remaining snow cone ticket. The goats surrounded her. I don't think she expected goats trying to eat her skirt while trying to feed another goat. The snow cone ticket got too close to a goat mouth and we watched in terror as the goat quickly snatched it, chewed it, and swallowed it. My daughter exclaimed "no one's going to believe that the goat ate my snow cone ticket!" It's a hot day. Her cousins and brother still own snow cone tickets. You know it, mom must approach the window to explain to the compassionate employees the entire ordeal. The employees didn't seem to phased by the story and gave us a snow cone ticket. Perhaps I should have paid more attention to the "goats can be aggressive" sign, but we had a fun time overall.
It all starts with a casual family outing to Grant's Farm, a family friendly attraction in St. Louis, MO. It's a great deal - free admission to the park, free tram ride to tour the deer park, a beer garden with free tastings, and free animal shows. The Busch family, the family who owned the Anheuser-Busch company, owns 281 acre Grant's Farm. You can see the famous Clydesdale horses and carriage houses even without the $25 Clydesdale Experience Tour. The park offers a 1.5 hour estate grounds tour "Estate Tour" for $25, but you can spend much longer just walking the grounds and seeing animals.
My daughter entered the goat feeding area with two bottles and her remaining snow cone ticket. The goats surrounded her. I don't think she expected goats trying to eat her skirt while trying to feed another goat. The snow cone ticket got too close to a goat mouth and we watched in terror as the goat quickly snatched it, chewed it, and swallowed it. My daughter exclaimed "no one's going to believe that the goat ate my snow cone ticket!" It's a hot day. Her cousins and brother still own snow cone tickets. You know it, mom must approach the window to explain to the compassionate employees the entire ordeal. The employees didn't seem to phased by the story and gave us a snow cone ticket. Perhaps I should have paid more attention to the "goats can be aggressive" sign, but we had a fun time overall.
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