The Mayfield Dairy

Today, after my mom's Weight Watchers meeting (Mom's doing AWESOME in that) we met my Grammy and my great grandmother, Mozzie to eat lunch at Arby's (America's Roast Beef Yes 'Sir! Not many people know that. Now you do) and then drove down to the Mayfield Dairy in Braselton. We looked around and bit and my mom found a cow print mouse pad. She called it a 'cow patty'. Everyone found that hysterical! Isabelle found this fancy ring that had an "I" on it, and she got it and she's been wearing it all day. We then went into the theatre and we watched a video about Mayfield Diary. It was interesting...then we had to put on...(you might want to act surprised just for me for this next part).................HAIRNETS!!! AAAAAAH! It was WEIRD FEELING!!! yeah...anyway...our tour guide was some guy named Al who also had the men wear BEARD NETS! HAAAAAAAAAAAAHAA! Poor men. Mom said she should have gotten one for Dad. That would have been HYSTERICAL!!! But she didn't. In the movie, they said that they started their first Mayfield Dairy 100 YEARS AGO IN ATHENS, TENNESSEE!!! That was a long time ago! Anyway Al took us to this room in the back and showed us how they clean the milk. They use this machinery to take out the unwanted flavors and odors. It was pretty cool. We also got to see how they get the milk from farmers everywhere from as far as Indiana. They had many different trucks. There was one from Florida that had a really weird saying about how Florida Milk Always Tastes Best! I thought they had the best orange juice. We then went to see how they bottle the milk. Instead of using plain old clear bottles they use yellow bottles that way the sun rays don't damage the milk. Plus we also learned that the "expiration date" on the bottle is the SELL BY date. The milk will last 10 to 5 days AFTER the sell by date. Mom said Dad wouldn't believe her. He's the type that he says, "Oh, it's the expiration date. Let's throw it out." Mom said Dad would find that useful information. At the end of the tour we got ICE CREAM!!! I got a COOKIES AND CREAM DOUBLE SCOOP!!! Oh, and also a really cool ORANGE T-shirt saying 'Life Is Short...Eat Dessert First!' with Mayfield Dairy at the bottom. Plus, two stick figures, a stick dog and a stick man were standing on the shirt and the stick guy was eating ice cream from Mayfield and his dog was drinking Mayfield Milk from a bowl. Then we left. I had a fun day at the Mayfield Dairy.