Today we had five young folks [in their 20's] do the take a llama to llunch, and it was fun! They came in and saw the babies and, of course, asked all the normal questions. Then we met the llamas we were going to take and I told the stories of their names and backgrounds [boring, probably, but they were polite]. Then we loaded the llamas into the trailer, which no one understands until they have come back with a llama who knows it is on the way back to the barn, and Carl drove the trailer to the back of the property. The group and I walked back in the woods — I’ll have to post a picture of that walk. It is just about worth the money of the day all by itself!
At any rate, we did the normal hike, which wasn’t long for them, and we had lunch. Then the real fun began. We tromped through the mud and muck, including a very mucky stream, walking the llamas in a majorly unstructured walk. One of the llamas, Kniggett, even got caught in a vine, and I was seriously afraid he was going to hurt himself, but thank goodness he didn’t! I did not take a llama on the walk. Sometimes that seemed to be a bit of a bummer, because the llama I would have taken, Minnett Mann, would have enjoyed the ups and downs, but then quite often I had to help get a llama to come down a hill [they were slipping and sliding because of the mud and steepness of the hills], so it was the best way to go. I would sometimes go ahead to see what way would work best, but most of the time we just kind of figured it out by ourselves as we went along. The group members made suggestions, and sometimes decisions, and off we would go! I will attach pictures tomorrow, once I figure out how to do it. I’m not sure the pictures show how much of a stretch it was for the llamas, but you figure the llamas had never done anything that steep before, and the group members had never handled llamas before, and I had never taken a group on that type of hike before. So it was all quite interesting.
Starting to get a thunderstorm, so I’ll finish this tomorrow.
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