Friday 10 June 2011

A day (or two) on the farm



It's Friday and time to catch up on some unblogged holiday moments - this time once again from our December holiday. While driving down to Port Elizabeth we stayed over on a farm on the other side of Bethulie than our usual haunt and it turned out to be the time of our lives. We arrived the afternoon and spent some time walking around the homestead . I met the couple who owns the farm (Hunter has been there before with friends) and their little girl and had a nice braai together.
What's a farm without a windpump.
Moya making a spash in the farm dam.

Snake skin the Princess found.Luckily we did not see the actual snake.
The two little girls "mothered" the two Jack Russel puppies. They (the puppies) were exhausted and kept crawling into the sleeping boy's bed to get away from the still awake girls.

The next morning the family came over just after breakfast with the little girl's pony and a quad bike. I can not try to explain the fun that followed.





And before we even knew it she was riding on her own. Later the pony was on her back feet and she stayed on top and did

The boys both got a ride or two - C's first ever on a pony.
 The puppies chaced bugs, went for a run and another swim and just relaxed.


 I think the boys had at least 20 trips up and down the farm road and into the veld.
 They had the best time ever.

We only left the farm at 3pm to complete our journey to PE with 3 (make that 5 and include the pups) very tired kids that slept a very very long time into the last bit of our journey.


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18 comments:

  1. LOL! Sleepy heads! Sign of a perfect time!

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  2. LOL! Sleepy heads! Sign of a perfect time!

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  3. I love the windmill photo!  Looks like you all had a good time.

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  4.  @8358bcefbb1d4c23c681f8ffbb4b5b8b Dad is even more comfy around horses so I guess it is in the blood.

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  5. debi9kids  It is about 560 km away from us - so a good drive.

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  6. It looks lovely out there!  The kids must have had such a cool time with the pony rides and the quad bike :)

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  7. Oh wow - that looks like SUCH fun! You sure know how to plan a holiday... i think I'm coming to you for tips x x

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  8. Great family photos and love that wind pump shot! hat sound like a great outing for kids!

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  9. OMGosh Cat! I didn't know you had places like that near you!
    It looks like Pennsylvania!
    It also looks like you had a fantastic time  and SO much fun! yea!

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  10. I just LOVE the horse riding pics. Looks like a really nice farm.x

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  11. I bet the kids loved riding the horses!

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  12. When they fall asleep in the car you know they had a fabulous time!  They all look very comfortable around horses.  It looks like they take after their Mom.

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  13. What an adventure you had!! Love all the pictures and that first one is just post card perfection!!

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  14. What a wonderful day! I'm totally jealous of the pony riding you know ;-) Love the snake skin!

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  15. @ae6f03a74be54924532f9e4a218581b4  Free State - bordering the "Tussen die riviere" conservancy. She is doing better thanks  - now have C sick as well.

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  16. Where is the Cat?  Looks divine (well much like my farm actually).  You can see the kids had an absolute ball.

    Eew to the snakeskin - luckily i haven't seen too many of those around.

    Hpe you have a good weekend and that A is on the mend xx

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  17. Oh Wow that looks so awesome

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  18. That looks like an enormous amount of fun! A friend recently told me they went to their farm for a weekend and she found her 6month old daughter on the stoep chewing a piece of old snake skin! I told her - better an old piece of skin, than a new piece of snake. ;-)

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