Our travels the past ten months have taken us to interesting places. We have met a wide variety of people from all over the country and the world, and have become attached to a number of pets traveling the country with their owners as well as local animals where we have stopped for the night or longer stays. But the animals here at the Passion Play are among our favorites for their gentleness, unique personalities and professionalism in their entertainment roles. While I have grown close to the donkeys, miniature horses and miniature cross-back donkey, Gus the shepherd-mix and Earl the cat, the four camels rank right up there as the most entertaining and fun to be around.
Matilda and Buttercup are our 3 year old females and will be returning tomorrow to their owner who will then breed the next camels which will be part of the Passion Play and Holy Land menagerie in 2016. We will have two current one-year olds who will step into the top camel positions for the next two weeks and all of next season. They were broken by our animal people this spring and are part of the team, but still have a ways to go match the exploits of M & B. We said our good-byes earlier this evening and laughed as they scarfed up the leaves we brought, as well as whatever else we had on the golf cart. We had to keep them from the styrofoam cup, popcorn and the cart itself. No need to send them home with stomachs aches (they do have multiple stomachs and if they don't digest what they eat well the first time they bring it up and chew their cud numerous times). They are quite the animals. As with our volunteers who we say farewell to and will miss, so too we will miss M & B and look forward to seeing their kids here in the future. As we pray for the future of The Great Passion Play and our possible involvement with it in the coming years, we pray for our two-legged and four-legged friends and will remember them with many fun pictures and fond memories. God has abundantly blessed us with His creation and His creatures. Thank You, Father.
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