Flowerworld Organic Farm Outing

Last Friday, my school had an outing to Flowerworld Organic Farm. As each child needed to be accompanied by an adult, mummy took the day off to go with me. She was worried there would be mosquitoes around so better to keep a watchful eye!!! Here I am, all dressed and ready to go! Photos are a bit blurry as they are taken with the blackberry. Camera charger still nowhere to be found!!! Here I am, at school! This is a recent activity that I've been working on. It's a picture of myself and my height! Do I look like my drawing? Hehe.

We were also asked to bring some baby photos to school, to talk about how much we have grown! Can you spot me???

Here's my comments haha. I'm big, alright!

Yay, finally we are on the bus.. Let's go!!!

It was quite sunny when we arrived, so I've got my Pluto hat on! There are sunflower plants behind me...

Here's a closer look at the sunflower plants behind me!

Too bad they will only bloom in about a month's time!!!

And it takes only 3 months for these sunflowers to go to 2metres in height!

Behind me here, are strawberry plants... there was not much to pick, so we were only allowed to pick10 each! Ceh, how little!

And then, here's the flower garden with all kinds of scarecrows!

And here's a sunflower in full bloom.

It was snack time, so I was actually more interested in chomping down my food.

Here are some of my classmates and my teachers... Wang Lao Shi on the left, Miss Kathy on the right! I'm standing in between Ashley my best friend and Lucas.

Aww... holding hands!!!

Then, it was time to plant some sunflower seeds.

We had to get our hands dirty and put the potting mix into the holes!

Then, we got to take home a dwarf sunflower plant! Hopefully mine doesn't die in my care.. ehehhe. I already dropped it once right after posing for this photo!

After that, we went to do some weeding and planted some corn!

This was my favourite part of the outing! LOL! Mummy was not too amused with my dirty pants though!

Here are some corns already growing...

Then, we got to pluck a corn each.

I paired up with Lucian to pluck it.

We had to push the corn down, then twist it until it popped out!

As you can see, I'm taller than the 4 year old boys in my class (smug)...

After that, we all headed home... The End!

Tokyo - Earthquake post

Hi there!!! Have not blogged for so long! A few things have contributed to that, namely... 1. Mummy can't find her camera charger so she has no camera and has to resort to taking photos with her blackberry so no nice picture quality to post 2. Popo and Ah mah + kong kong came to visit so no time to blog 3. Mummy got stuck in Japan during the earthquake so was too traumatised to blog 4. Mummy has been busy at work so no time to blog. Anyways, now that things have quietened down and we're back to our boring routine, I can blog again!!! First up, mummy wants to hog my blog to talk about her trip to Tokyo. She was there from 7 to 11 March. so she had time to do some sightseeing in Tokyo before the quake struck when she was enroute to the airport. she was there for work, she didn't have much time to go out, but she did manage to see Ometosendo, Harajuku and Shibuya! The day she arrived in Tokyo, it snowed!!! How strange, considering it was March and about to be Spring... maybe a sign of the disaster to come? Here's the view from the airport bus heading to the airport... snow on the side of the road! By the time mummy arrived at the hotel, it was dark already! Takes 2 hours to get from Narita airport to the hotel. Here's the view from her room.. nice hor!

And the hotel is situated next to the Tokyo Tower... nice views.

Next door to the hotel, is a quite famous temple called Dojoji temple which she didn't have time to visit.

Across the road from the hotel, is the Atago Mori tower - where the BAT office is conveniently located. 10 minutes walk each way. But it was very cold to walk - about 5-10 degrees everyday!

Anyway, mummy went to Ometosando on her first night... managed to navigate the subway all by herself in a foreign land! Very clever! It was a very classy shopping district with pretty buildings!

Then, another night, she went to Shibuya to look at the famous intersection. More affordable and trendy shopping! But too bad no time to shop.

Managed to find the famous crepe shops along Harajuku's Takeshita lane!

And then, when mummy was on the bus on the way to the airport, the earthquake struck.

She got on the bus at 2pm and the quake struck at about 2.45pm...

There was a huge billow of smoke behind the bus, from buildings which were on fire. There were also cracks on the highway and the lampposts were swaying from the aftershocks so the driver had to pull over on the side of the highway until things were calmer.

She only arrived at Narita at 8pm.

It was chaotic, but still orderly at the airpot.

Staff were handing out food and water, blankets, sleeping bags, etc.

All flights were cancelled for the night, so mummy had to sleep over at the airport!!!

Lots of other people in the same situation, but everyone was very polite and there was no clamouring or pushing for anything.

Luckily- mummy managed to get a flight out the following night, and arrived back in HK safe and sound. What an experience!!! :)