Tackling Prickly Heat

Dominique Thoughts Botanic gardens, kids outing, tackle it tuesday

Over the weekend we brought the boys to Botanic Gardens to play with their new Frisbee. It has been quite a while since we last brought them there and there have been quite a few changes to the place.

We visited the glasshouse where there was a new cactus garden. I was amazed that there were so many different cacti around and the glasshouse. Monkey boy didn’t know that it was possible for Cacti to have flowers as the pictures of cactus which he has been introduced to are mainly of those that were prickly and green.

The cactus garden at the Botanic Gardens

Besides going to the Cactus garden we also came across the another lovely greenhouse which had bonsai plants.

At the Bonsai Greenhouse

At the Bonsai Greenhouse

After about an hour in the park the heat was getting to the boys and they had a real “cool” way of beating the heat. Ya!! Place the towel on your head. Doesn’t he remind you of a Coolie worker?

Doggy Boy keeping cool in the sweltering heat

*Photos were taken with my Nokia handphone and edited with Picasa. 
I brought along my Sony Cybershot but was unable to take any shots as the camera
battery was flat!!..Grr..must remind myself to charge the batteries before we go out 
on the weekend.

July 7, 2008

Reflective Monday- Walk down Evolution Lane

Dominique Thoughts Botanic gardens, Family day

doggie boy

It was a good opportunity for the kids to learn how our earth was made through walking along the part in this garden. Even though i the concepts of evolution were a bit too much for a 4yr old to understand I managed to explain to Ryan that the earth started out with just plants. Later on they had the first flowers and from that the various fauna and flora that we see. Much later came the animals and humans. After many millions of years later then we have the earth as he sees it today.

I think that I will have to bring the boys back there when they are much older so they can really appreciate the creations at the Evolution Garden and the richness in the history that its exhibits portray.