Farmer Girl!

On a sunny Monday, we thought that it would be a great idea to go to a farm, seeing that 1) it is a Monday, so there shouldn't be too many people, 2) Bibou LOVES apples, and apples are in season right now, and we were told (on our MESSAGE website that there were abundance) 3) my parents, especially kongkong (who was actually quite tickled that our apple tree in our back garden had some big apples) loved to go harvesting, especially since it is something you can't do in Singapore! So off to the Ferme de Gally (or Gally Farm) which you should be quite familiar with by now as we've been there so very often on this blog now, we went.

When we got there, we were so pleasently surprised. There just wasn't many people there, so we almost had the whole place to ourselves! And it was a huuuuuuuuuuuuuge place. One doesn't realize it at first, when you're there with lots of people as we would be jostling to get to the good fruits and vegetables. But as we were alone, we could see how vast it was! The first thing that we went straight for was the apple orchards. Blimey, there were rows and rows and rows of them apples! Well, some of them were corned off, so we had to walk a fairly long way to get to them. We were looking for some golden delicious, which is Bibou's favorite. But along the way, we got to find out a few different varities and also learning how to pick them apples. Bibou was just thrilled at first that there were just sooo many apples. She was squealing : "apples" "apples" as she pointed them out. She was amazed that there were so many everywhere... at first, she didn't quite understand what they were doing on the trees themselves. She'd pick one off the ground (and we'd to rush over to make sure that they were not rotten or anything) and eat it (well, first asking us to take a bite first for her as she still can't get the 'first bite' down), and then squeal when she sees another (and trust me, there were tons on the ground). She was literally in apples paradise! Then she realized that we were not picking apples off the ground but plucking them from the trees... and she decided that she wanted to try too. So Daddy hoisted her off the ground, and with a big look of concentration on her face, she managed to pull a couple of apples off the tree. And boy was she proud! By now, mahmah and Kongkong had filled our (very squeaky for some reason!) wheelbarrow up with quite a bit of apples. So she also wanted to try and push the wheel barrow, but it was tooo heavy. She settled with playing 'swing' between kongkong and mummy!.

After picking apples, we went to the other side (a very long way actually!!) to get some vegetables. Bibou did get quite tired and ended up mostly on my or Daddy's shoulders or kongkong's arm. Needless to say, Bibou fell prompty to sleep once we were in the car. And what a day we had. We came home with lots of apples (and I've made apple crumble already and everyon'es been eating lots of apples), lovely yummy sweet young corn (they were particularly good!), some great big red shallots. yum yum. And best of all, we got to spend a great day with kong kong and mahmah.