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Here's a photo from the goat farm at the Amster- damse Bos, about which several of you have heard me rave from time to time. This particular photo I took when I visited there in June with Casey's niece. I'm the sure the goat was hoping to nibble my camera at the time.

The Amsterdamse Bos is a forest on the southern edge of Amsterdam, about a 40 minute bike ride, mostly along the river, from our apartment. The Bos has all sorts of diverting pieces: soccer and (field) hockey fields; a rowing baan (what's the word in English?); some little islands with ropes courses, a cool raft, a rope swing, and the like; two horse stables; a theater... but my favorite amenity is the goat farm. Well, that and the game in the visitor center where you match photos of poo with the animal that made it. Anyway, at the goat farm you can pet the goats, buy grain or milk to feed them, watch them try to eat anything not nailed down and several things that are, AND taste goat ice cream and goat brie and other awesome goat cheeses. The farm has done nothing to temper my enthusiasm to acquire a pet goat.

This particular goat was roughly teenage. Kids' hair is much softer than adults', which I'm not sure I'd realized. Aren't goats CUTE???