Hunter Valley Gardens - Part 2

I think that there is a parallel between this garden and our own Botanical Garden ! Again there are 2 posts for the one place !

This time it was all about the kids. The Storybook Garden was fantastic. The place was scattered with all the old time stories like Humpty Dumpty, Jack ad Jill, Mary Had a Little Lamb and so on. So now for the HUGE amount of pictures !!! Enjoy !!

Ding Dong Dell, Pussy in the Well.

The short nursery rhymes had a book with the verse then the character near it.

I know its a garbage bin, but I had to take a photo of it !!!

We all loved the giraffe "reading" the book !!

Humpty Dumpty before his great fall !!

All the Kings horses and all the Kings men !!

For a gold coin donation the kids could have their faces painted.

The kids faces were beautiful !! The woman was very talented.

All done in less than a minute and the detail was fantastic.

The Dish and E running away with the Spoon !!!

Some tea with Alice and the Mad Hatter.

Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dee with an imposter !!!

Helping Little Bo Peep find her sheep !!

 Georgie Porgie stole E's heart !!!

But after that kiss the naughty boy made her cry :(

So that concludes our wonderful trip to the Storybook Garden and our wonderful time in the Hunter Valley. Next stop is the Blue Mountains with the Three Sisters and the Scenic Railway. Stay tuned for some fun and games from there !!

Day 2 - Hunter Valley Gardens Part 1

I have split this post into 2 parts as I took SO many pictures at the gardens. The next post will only feature the pictures taken in Storybook Land !! The kids (and I) had such a great time there that there needed to be a separate post.

But for now here is the first half. The Hunter Valley Gardens are the largest display garden in Australia and I have been wanting to bring the kids here for a long time. Being the beginning of spring I imagined all the wonderful colour that spring brings. Even though there wasn't to much colour it was well worth the trip.

So here goes with a large number of photos !!!

Grandma's Rose Garden

View back to the front gate

There were a lot of these little sculptures around the place.

Without the poser !!!

Turned around from the fountain and saw this. Beautiful !!

Wonderful wood carvings on this little hut.

My beautiful crazy family !!

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Who's that poser ???? !!!!

My favorite - elephants xx

This school holidays they had a Happy Feet Concert !!

I loved the Chinese Gardens.

Thanks E for taking this photo as the others had run on ahead.

This is where we found them. Posing again !!!

They do love each other sometimes.

Lovely pose !!

E loved that the horses eye was a flower.

The welcoming view after a great day.

The next morning when we have to say goodbye to our wonderful view :(

The rear of our villa. We had the whole upstairs area.

Well that concludes day 2 and if you have gotten to this part of the blog, thanks !!! I told you there are a lot of pictures, but you should know by now that I LOVE to take pictures !!! The next blog will probably have just as many pics just from one part of the garden !!