Moooo!!!

Have you ever seen such a cute little cow?

Happy Belated Cow Appreciation Day!!  As you can see, Enoch and I decided to celebrate this year by dressing up as cows.  :)  Well, honestly we dressed up like cows to get free chicken, not really to celebrate, but the people at Chick-Fil-A (CFA) certainly didn't care what our motivation was.  That's right, if you dress up like a cow on Cow Appreciation Day AND go to your local CFA, they will give you free chicken!  

Now, I should stop for a second and admit that I actually forgot about this all important day until my best friend reminded me on the phone.  Thankfully, she and her baby were going to go and eat free chicken too, so she couldn't help but share the exciting news with me.  :)  So, thanks to that sweet friend, Enoch and I also ventured out in our best black-spotted outfits.   And of course, we got plenty of pictures to share with you!!  

Now, here's the secret about free chicken day Cow Appreciation Day at CFA, if you only wear one cow related item, they will gladly give you one free entree, BUT if you dress "head to toe" in cow gear, you can get a FREE MEAL!!  Now some people go all out for this and actually sew cow costumes, but we obviously didn't have that much time... So we did the next best thing- we sharpied (is that even a verb??) on old shirts.  :)


But, remember, having a spotted shirt will only get you a free entree.  So since we don't mess around when it comes to free food, we went all out and made cow headbands too (made from an old shirt sleeve).  Then I donned some black shorts.  To finish off the outfit, I wore one black sock and one white sock under my brown sandals (which I NEVER do in public).  :)  This was how we looked before leaving the house.

I was amazed at the HUGE turn-out at CFA because Starkville has only had a CFA in town for one day (if you don't count the one on campus in the union, which I do NOT count).  That's right!  Only one day!!  They had campers camping out all night just a few nights before! But when we parked, I quickly noticed that no one else in the crowd who was going or coming was wearing any cow gear, let alone dressed head to toe.  I'll admit, this intimidated me a bit.  I was a little nervous that since this was a new CFA they might not be celebrating with free chicken... surely if they were, everyone else would be wearing their black spots too, right???  

Well, thankfully, no.  Enoch and I gathered our guts, and marched right into CFA with our black spots and mis-matched socks, and we were greeted with cheers and cowbells (which scared Enoch for a minute or two).  As always, all of the CFA staff were so nice, and we scored 2 free entrees (one was a kids meal)!!!  And Enoch got a cow toy... can't beat that!  On our way out the door, we ran into some friends who were sitting down to eat, so Enoch and I joined them for a few minutes and then took our loot back home to our hungry Daddy (he was too busy to dress like a cow, so that's why there are no papa cows in the photos).   

This was definitely one of the highlights of last week, and we will be celebrating Cow Appreciation Day next year too!  (I think it will be kind of fun to do after we have a lot of kids... then I'll have a whole herd of cows to follow me into CFA!!)  :-D