Around Singapore - Frog Farm

One day we decided to visit one of the many farms that you can tour throughout Singapore. With all of the choices - the goat farm, the orchid farm, the vegetable farm, the koi farm, the fruit farm - the boys, of course, chose the Frog Farm, which funny enough raises American Bullfrogs! We were very excited to get there, especially since the description of it we found in the tour book looked amazing: a guided tour, a movie about frog farming, a chance to hold frogs - wow!

Well, after about an hour of MRT and cab rides, we finally got there. The description was slightly inflated. We were the only people to be seen in what looked like a desolate, dirty junkyard with rows and rows of concrete boxes. Upon closer inspection we realized that the frogs were inside these boxes. Although I was slightly mortified, the boys thought it was the best place on earth and spent the next hour and 45 minutes running frantically from box to box. Since there was absolutely no one there to tell us we couldn't, the boys would lean over the edges of the boxes far enough to grab frogs so they could hold them - big globs of slime and all. (I was a bit concerned at them touching the stagnant water that held hundreds of frogs - brown, green, one-eyed, two-legged, fat, skinny, alive, dead - but thankfully no one seemed to contract any weird tropical frog disease so far.)

When it was time to leave, we walked quickly past the smiling man in the blood-covered apron and managed to find someone who, after we refused to taste either the frog legs or the essence of frog, gave us a small plastic container and a net and told us we could catch (more like rescue) a couple of tadpoles to take home with us. So we now have our first pets in Singapore - four fat tadpoles. We are hoping they turn into four fat frogs soon. We'll keep you posted!