Today I took Nathan and Toby to the Collingwood Children’s Farm. On the drive there I was talking to Nathan about what we might see there.
Mummy: we will probably see cows, and sheep…
Nathan: and dinosaurs!
Mummy: we probably won’t see dinosaurs
Nathan: but if we look hard we will see them! Hooray!
We met Janis and Annabella there and spent a relaxing couple of hours wandering around while the kids enjoyed the animals.
It was a coincidence that we happened to plan this outing on a day when entry was free. There were a lot of people and kids there, and parking was difficult to come by.
There were sheep and goats in small paddocks that were tame and could be touched. Nathan, along with many other children, was really interested in the kids (baby goats, that is) drinking milk from their mothers. Nathan loved the chickens..he always seems to be fascinated by chickens. We also saw horses and ponies, a couple of cows, a pig and held a guinea pig.
We had a lovely day, the weather was perfect, and it was hard to believe that we were essentially in the city with all the green open space around. I don’t think, though, that it is a place that we will frequent, but we will go back again….hopefully when it isn’t quite as busy as it was today.
Tonight I overheard Nathan telling Andrew about his day. I laughed when I heard “but we didn’t see any dinosaurs”.
