Recent School Days in Oamaru

Drewby and Kalesita had a field trip to Totara Estate Farms.  This week in Oamaru is the Victoran Fete.  I have no clue on how to pronounce that word Fete, but I would call it a Festival, so I refer to it as that anyway.  They were to dress up for it as well...so this is what they wore. =)

Drewby showing us how they'd clean the mats back then.  Floors were usually made of cement and they had little rugs mats instead.  To clean them, you had to hang them outside along the fence and beat the dust out with your broom.

Drewby playing "knuckles" with one of the teachers.  A kids game from back in the day...after they cut meat from the animals, they would keep the knuckles from the animal hands and play this game called "knuckles."

The kids were shown a presentation of how to grind wheat to make bread.
This picture here is where the kids were able to put their hands in the wheat after it's been grinded.
Drewby LOVED it!

Just because I thought this was a cute photo.;)

Ringing the bell to let us know it was time to walk to the next workshop.  SO COOL! 

Learning about the water well.  Reeling that bucket deep into the ground for water.
It took so much work to get enough water just to cook, clean or feed the animals.

Learning about the horseshoe.  Drewby not so interested, he just wanted to play the horseshoe game.  LOL!

"no more Mom!" Tired of taking pics!!  

Koloi, Kalesita and Drewby.  This is a part of our scenic drive home each and everyday from school.  It NEVER gets old.  It's an everyday reminder of God's BEAUTIFUL creation.  The day I took these pictures (sometime last week) happened to be the first SUNNY day in a while for Oamaru and so we pulled over after school to play at the park for a bit and enjoy the weather.  I don't get to do this much, because we are usually rushing home to get kids to sports practices or something.

I could seriously stay here all day!!  I LOVE MY OAMARU!!

a fun lil clip swinging at the park.