Our children have a genuine love for farms and love doing the farm jobs, they were ready and waiting for Ngaire at 8.15am to feed the chooks, pigs and give the lambs their bottle of milk.

Our outing for today was a visit to The Waterworks. This is the most amazing place, not even Mummy and Daddy have seen anything like it and we had heaps of fun playing with all the water activities.

We all agreed our favourite activity was the boat races, we spent about an hour racing our boats.  The rules said cheating was essential so there was also a bit of creativity in each race. We had to choose a boat to race and Jennifer chose “Whizzy” we think the rest of us chose duds. We took our boats to the start of the water track and put them in the water. Whizzy was the best boat and won every time.

The boats floated along a wooden channel that changed direction, heights and went though obstacles like a washing machine bowl.  If the boat stopped in the water or the boats got jammed you could block the water with little wooden chucks or just pick them up and drop them in again. It was such a neat activity and Mr James enjoyed himself immensely.

Back at the farm, Mummy cooked an omelette and it was delicious to eat the fresh farm eggs with our dinner – Salmon – more amazing New Zealand Salmon!!

Daddy took a picture of the view from our kitchen window.