Queens County Farm Museum

When most people think of New York City, they think of the skyscrapers, subways and busy streets of Manhattan. But there's actually five boroughs in NYC - Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx, Brooklyn and Staten Island. Having explored the Brooklyn Children's Museum, taken the subway through Manhattan and enjoyed the Staten Island Ferry, we decided it was time to take Flat Stanley to a different borough. It seemed like a great weekend to visit to the Queens County Farm.

Queens County Farm is a long drive from where we live, but we picked up our friend Paul. Paul's daddy is also in medical school like Penny's daddy. Paul had one request when visiting the farm - he wanted to see some animals. We were in luck! There were lots of fun animals at the farm. We started by visiting some friendly chickens.

We just missed getting to watch the sheep shearing contest. The sheep looked a little cold there in little more than their skins. Here Stanley is trying to tell the sheep about the great sweater vendor just a few feet away. I don't know if he realized where her supplies had come from.

Not too far away, we found a great spot where they let us feed the animals. They had all kind of different things - from pigs and chickens to lizards, turtles and llamas. Penny had a great time finding which animals really wanted lettuce and carrots. It seemed that most of the rabbits and guinea pigs had already had their fill of carrots. But the pigs seemed pretty hungry (almost lost a finger or two!) and the llama was more than happy to eat several of our lettuce leaves. Penny was excited to see that she and the animals liked so many of the same vegetables.We were really looking forward to picking our own pumpkins, but managed to miss the open hours with all the excitement at the petting portion of the farm.

At the end of the day, we started the long journey home. We dropped off Paul at his house in Queens, then drove all the way through Brooklyn to get home to Staten Island. We had a nice dinner of chicken, carrots and celery (hmmm...I think we saw all those things on the farm). Penny started to type up our adventures on the computer with Stanley. But then it got pretty late, so we headed to bed.