National Milk San Diego

Jeff and I had the privledge to go to the annual National Milk Meeting, this year held in San Diego, CA along with 3 other couples from our YC group. A great time to escape to some warmer weather in the sunshine, but we also did enjoy the meetings and meeting other dairy farmers from all across the country and hearing how they do things in their neck of the woods.

Here's a group photo from the trip which including the Steve Rowe and our YC leader, Michelle Carter.

In between meetings (or maybe during a few of them!) we ventured out around San Diego a bit. One free afternoon we took the trail/rail car to Old Town San Diego which was alot of fun with the Dorsey's & Van Dyk's.

Becky and I also enjoyed the 'scenery' at one of the largest malls in the country which happened to be located directly behind our hotel.... darn the bad luck!

We also got to hear Tampa Bay football player, John Lynch speak to us during one of the lunches- he definitley had some great 'behind the scene' stories to share!

Ahhhh, palm trees- they always make me happy! :)

Last night at dinner!

Special day for the Boon's!

Yesterday our family and Steve & Melinda's family got to go down to the Darigold Headquarters in Seattle for a tour to see the pictures that they used from the Fresh Vol. 4 magazine and blew them up to hang on the walls. We came up to the landing of the 2nd floor and this is what we saw! Very cool. Had to get the "Boon Boys" picture taken in front of it, of course!

Three of our pretty girls :)
After a tour of the building, we went into the main Board Room to look at a few minutes of tape that they'd put together from a video they are putting together to show not only nationwide, but internationally! It'll be called "Feeding the World"- so far they just had some rough pieces, but was fun to watch and will be really neat to see when it's all done!

On our way to the plant our, Ryan showed me his goodies he got at the office... a brand new Darigold shirt, some Refuel chocolate milk and a cow toy :)

Jacob saw me take his brother's picture and said, 'Me too!' so he gave me one of his fabulous poses. :) Fresh milk-stache and all!

The whole fam getting ready to head out on our private tour of the Rainier plant where our milk gets shipped! We got to see from the bottles being, being filled, sealed, wrapped, put on pallets and loaded onto trucks to head to the store. Pretty darn cool!