Our orders the previous night were to wake up roughly around 6:15 am which was just an hour before breakfast time. In that hour, the time was made up for us to wash up, get a bath and have a change of clothes. For breakfast, we had hash-browns, scrambled eggs, roasted tomatoes and fish fingers. They were all quite delicious I must say.
After a filling breakfast, the manager's wife conducted a treasure hunt activity for us. The activities conducted were basically needed much logic, commonsense, and some stamina for running around. Firstly, the whole lot(the 30 of us)was split into two groups. Each group had a leader and the leader decided on the name of the group. My group was called 'the girls and boys' group while the other group's name was shabalabadingdong(pronounced as sha-ba-la-ba-ding-dong)! Hilarious isn't it?
Well the first activity was to stack up as many balloons as you want to the height of the dining chair. Besides meeting the height of the chair, the stack of balloons also had to stand up or balance on its own! Our group used tons of balloons. I should say we used around 20 balloons. The other group used four balloons for their base, then they stacked four or five balloons on top of the base, matching the height of the chair. Either way, both teams met the expectations of the activity.
Now, the second and the fifth activity were the ones that needed a lot of running about. The next activity that had to be accomplished before moving onto the third activity was that each team had to find 10 different leaves and 5 different types of fruit, all around the farm. My team had a head start since we finished the first activity first. We all scurried off to look for the objects listed. When we had found all the 10 different leaves and 5 fruits, everyone rushed back to the dining area to report to the manager who was conducting that activity. On the way, there was this beautiful lake for the geese to swim in. The manager said it used to be a waterfall.
The manager's wife said that our team still had a head start, so we'd better hurry to be the first. Anyway, the third activity held was a tricky one. Each group had to hold a roll of toilet paper around their group like in a circle shape and slowly move around the chairs that were randomly placed around the room. On some of the chairs, there was an item on it, like a sauce bottle or a water bottle, and someone in the group had to collect and hold them in their hands. If in a situation that any part of the 'toilet roll chain' were to tear or break, the entire group was to start from the beginning point.
Our next task was to make something like nest with all the objects outside so that when an egg falls onto it, the egg will not crack. It was fairly easy. We just took twigs for the nest's base and a few bunches of grass for the bedding. When the egg was dropped from a height, the egg didn't crack. Mission accomplished!
Now this was the final activity, the fifth actually. For this activity, each group was given a paper. On the paper, there were 18 pictures of different locations on the farm. Our task was to use one of your group member's camera to take pictures of the same photo as shown on the paper. This was the hardest activity among all of them. Although we started first, our team came in second which is considered last.
After the treasure hunt, it was lunch.
Then it was time for the sheep shearing demo. The sheep shearer also had a dog. He used the dog to round up the sheep. The dog also had puppies. They so adorable! They didn't bite when I pet them, and their fur was so soft. I do adore puppies. The sheep shearer showed us how to shear a sheep and told us more information about the sheep and shearing them. Sheep are sheared once a year and it only takes around 2-3 minutes to get one sheep done. The sheep shearer said that the most he had ever done in 8 hours was 48 sheep.
Right after the sheep shearing demo, we made our way to the winery. The manager showed us the grape vineyard. The vineyard had a very large area. There were different types of grapes. Since it wasn't the grape season, there weren't much grapes growing. After that, the manager brought us into the winery shed. He showed us the different machines used to process the wine, like the juicing and peeling. We learnt about how wine was plucked, made and packaged!
That was a tiring activity. I got really hungry. Thank goodness it was time for dinner! Dinner was so tasty. There was spaghetti, vegetarian noodles and salad. I enjoyed the salad, especially with the salad dressing.
The next activity was the most exciting. We had a campfire! It was fun. We sang campfire songs around the campfire. The warmth from the burning firewood touched our skins. It was a lovely feeling, but after awhile, I kinda got a little warm. The best part of the campfire was roasting the marshmallows. They were crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside. It had a great texture, soft and crunchy.
Although we didn't go out of the farm today, we sure did a lot of things. We did the treasure hunt activity, saw the sheep shearing demo, went to the winery and had a campfire. I'm looking forward to tomorrow.
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