New arrivals !!!

The clouds finally rolled in this afternoon and a lazy day was had in general.

We ventured off to the 'Moris Pub', one of Val d'Iseres oldest establishments, for a late lunch/early dinner from their extensive burger menu. Servings were huge and the fact it was happy hour (4pm-6pm), made the outing seem like quite the bargain.

Just as all the skiers started to troop in for the essential 'Apres ski', we departed for another trip to the farm!!! The 'Brown' family who stayed with us last week in Chalet Ruby went to the farm for dinner on Wednesday and came back claiming half the cows were about to give birth so we just had to see if any had!

The farm was heaving, I've never seen so many people there before, or animals. A pony crept out of the hay barrels, 3 cats were tormenting a calf and a family of pigs were being most vocal, the residential loopy dog was causing chaos too demanding lots of attention with a mangled chewy stick, pleasant.

Regardless, we got there at milking time, 6pm, quite the spectacle. From what I could gather, the lovely bovines produce 18 litres of milk a day. We bought a litre of fresh milk, straight from a cow and still warm, Louis Pasteur would be turning in his grave if he only knew!

We located one new born calf, only hours old and still covered in funky stuff. He /she/ it, was most keen on finger sucking, think I dazed the poor blighter though by taking this picture. It was very cute though. Its neighbour was an older calf, they were the only two we could find, although we did find the maternity ward, those Mamas are huge!!! One looked like a calf was going to pop out any second, I'll have to return tomorrow to see if the offspring has arrived.

Anyone can go along to see the cows, milking times are probably the most popular times, well, the evening session is, not sure many people would go for the 6am milking session, feel free to do so though!!