Pretty much as soon as we got to school, Julian found a bit of bamboo, and he promptly took off exploring while I took the girls on a tour to meet the animals and see the gardens.
We visited the orchard and Merata found an orange on the ground, and TA found a tiny mandarin which I peeled and they ate. They also tried a couple of Brazillian cherries which were ripe.
Their favourite part of being at my school was checking out the piggies. We checked with Jose if the pigs could have a couple of bananas that were by their pen and after getting the ok, the girls ran back to the enclosure to give Polly and Pudge a treat.
When we got home I grabbed a Bangalow palm branch that had just fallen in our driveway and told the kids we could make a basket out of it, and i'd show them how.
The guinea pig sat in Merata's lap while we laid out the branch and folded and cut to make it into a waterproof basket. They wanted to put the guinea pig in the basket with some food, thinking they could keep it in there, but notso lol.. then the idea of using it as a boat instead of a basket, with the guinea pig in it was tossed around... hehe
The next day was sunny and warm, and the first like that in a while.. and the kids wanted to get to the creek for a swim, so we took the boat, and set off for our local swimming hole, Cedar Creek.
The boat was buoyant and waterproof.. so a great success :)
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