Visitng a camel farm

On Saturday afternoon we loaded up the car and headed into the desert to visit a camel farm.  While we have been to the desert numerous times on arranged tours, this was a little bit different.  A friend of ours had heard about this place through one of her mom's groups and arranged for the visit.  This was a small working farm with no tour operator, advertisers or touristy photo takers.  There were about ten camels, including a baby who was only two days old!  We were able to ride the camels, take lots of photos and then had a traditional Arabic barbecue just after sunset. I've attached some of my favorite photos.  You can find more in my Google+ album online. 

She probably could have eaten this entire plate of sweets

This is Uschi, the camel lady (she runs the farm) and the baby camel is only two days old

 Being brave and sitting on a camel.  Her big sister was braver and went for a ten minute ride (with mommy).

The girls made friends with one of the farm-hands.  He took off his head scarf and let them model it for a while.  I'm pretty sure he would have let us leave both of them for the week.