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A Birthday Weekend with Alpacas in Temecula

·Temecula, California, United States·#california#summer#birthday#alpacas#temecula
Multiple alpacas of various colors are gathered in a sunny outdoor pen with a wooden shelter and fences.

Spent a weekend in mid-June out in Temecula for a combined birthday and Father's Day celebration. The weather was exactly what you'd expect for summer inland—hot, dry, and very sunny. We spent a lot of the time at an alpaca farm, which was a pretty unique setting for the occasion.

The animals were in a large, dusty enclosure with white fences and a few trees for shade. They seemed pretty used to people, coming right up to the fence to be fed. They all had these incredibly fluffy, shaggy coats in different shades of brown, white, and black. Their expressions are just kind of funny and curious.

The birthday cake itself was, fittingly, alpaca-themed. It was pretty elaborate, with little fondant alpacas, cacti, and succulents sitting on top. We set it up on a colorful blanket right there with the actual alpacas milling around in the background. It felt like the only appropriate way to do it. Just a quiet, slightly strange weekend.

A child's hand feeds a dark brown alpaca over a white fence, with other alpacas and trees in the background.A close-up side profile of a brown alpaca with a shaggy head, its face near a person's hand.A brown alpaca with a fluffy head looks toward the camera, standing by a tree with a white fence and trees in the background.Close-up of a light brown alpaca's head and neck with a darker patch, a white fence and trees in the background.Several alpacas, some recently shorn, stand by a white fence in a dirt enclosure, with a person's hand feeding one.A dark alpaca stands on dirt ground beside a white fence, overlooking a valley and mountains under a blue sky.A two-tier cake featuring alpacas and cacti sits on a striped blanket, with real alpacas visible behind a fence.A yellow cake with two llama figures and cacti sits on a blue stand, on a colorful blanket, with alpacas in the background.

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