School Outing

Every year this time, William's school would organize an outing for the kids and parents.

We have joined the school outing 2 years ago, and roughly know what kind of trip it would be since then. Imagine, a huge group of 400 plus children and parents that go together, it's hard to achieve certain kind of quality that most people want, for example, RELAXING...

We have tried to ignore the invitation when the teacher slipped the notice in William's bag. But William wanted to go so much this year, probably because his class teacher had done a marvelous job in the promotion job. For the sake of William will be graduating soon and this would be the last school outing for him, we didn't say "NO" when he said "YES".

That Saturday morning was very cold. We woke up early and gathered in school before the whole gang could finally departed at around 9.40 pm. It was 40 min behind the scheduled time. There start our compact trip for the day.

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The first destination is Tai Po Insert House. We have been to this place for more than 10 times. Those are the passengers in Bus I (bus no. 9).

William's classmate.

Inside the insert house, there is nothing too fascinated about it. We just walked through it without much lingering. Should give way to the people who seldom come to this place, right.

One of the specimen. Besides moths or butterflies, there are lots of beatles specimen too. Actually, most of the beatles are very pretty if looking them in detail.




Floras around the insert house...



The flowers all look very pretty and healthy too, must be a very good place for them to growth.

While waiting for the other people to come out, we simply let the boys to run around and to play whatever they like, as long as the act is not damaging.

Our lunch was settled in the Chinese University's canteen, it's buffet style. We quickly gobbled the foods, line up to go to the toilet, then headed north to our 2nd destination at around 1 pm.

Lavender garden in HK, well, never heard of it before.

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The tour guide told us that the owner of this lavender farm came back from England after migrating there for some time. Couldn't find any job to do, he found a partner who offered him this piece of land to work on until now. Besides lavender, they also plant some herbs that are widely used in cooking too.




Some of the lavenders that is planted here...Must lavender blue in color?



Apparently, there are blue lavenders too...




They are just interested in playing with the soil, not the lavender...

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Ok, time's up. Got to go to the 3rd destination...




Frankly speaking, I was only looking forward to go to the strawberry farm the whole day. The farm is bigger than I've expected.



Young and old, we all were thrilled to see those fresh strawberries...




Since we got to pay for whatever we cut here (HKD40/lb), we got to educate the boys to choose for the right one, right. The rules is simple : Only cut the biggest, and bloody red one.

When I saw those strawberries, I really have the urge to put them into mouth. But somebody kept nagging us by using a loud speaker, that we shouldn't do it. OK OK, I've got it.

The boys were so happy to find the strawberries to cut.




And we were happy that they cut the right one for most of the time.

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The strawberries here are organic planted, and their size are bigger than I've expected too. Now I know the locally planted strawberries are no any interior than the imported one.

End up, we had cut a full basket of strawberries, weighted slightly more than 2 lb. And that was done in just 30 min time. If we could have stayed here any longer, I'm sure we would cut a hell lot than that amount. Sigh, hard to tell is this a good thing or a bad thing?

Ok, that's the final destination for the day, a cow farm.




The entrance looks like a flea market instead. We were given a small cup of fresh milk as a complimentary drink, I didn't take it. Vincent did, he said it tastes good.



The baby cow, age only 1 year plus, but they weight more than 100kg already. Boy, what an incredible growth rate.

Cow feeding is the only thing that we can do here. Too bad there is no milking activities open to the public.

Walking up the hill, there live the mother cows. The guide told us only female cows are available here, for the sake of their milk. They used genetic method to breed for baby cow. Err...how to say that?

Those cows are from New Zealand. But same type of cow, very different fate.

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In NZ, I bet their peers have a large greenery field to walk around, and have unlimited lush grasses to eat on. Here, the cows can only walk within this "jail" area, and be fed.

Saw this cow at the other side of the "jail". It got a fresh wound on its right horn area. Wonder what had happen to it? It seems very lonely. I felt so sorry for it, but there is nothing we could do but feed him some grass. I hope it will get well soon.




Ms Lau is not just William's teacher, but Vincent's too, when he was in kindegarten. Personally, I respect her a lot for she does more than what a teacher suppose to do. In school, she is also like a nanny to them.

We got home around 5 pm that day. The first thing to do was of course, to wash some strawberries and put them into mouth. To my surprise, they aren't just look good, but taste very sweet too. We are so pleased with the good quality of those strawberries...



Look how pretty they are. We had decided to go to that farm again some time in the future. Must jot down here that Nov-Feb is the best season to go...


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