More from the museum

“Ahhh!! Daddy is being eaten by the dinosaur” –Alanah

of course we had to have a peek at the dinosaurs even though we technically haven’t been studying them this term.

But who can pass up the opportunity  to put your hands on something so tremendously larger that yourself.

This was pretty cool. They had a massive video projected onto one of the exhibition walls. It was counting down just over a minute till it started so we hung about to watch it. The projection was in front of a fossil display and I thought that the film would be about fossils forming you know like the old bat one we used to watch at school were the bat dies and falls into the mud and then the sediment layers build up around it. But no, this one had these tiny little cutie pies come frolicking up to lap playfully at the waters edge, quite realistic cutie pies I might add. All the children watching let out a heart felt Aww in unison. Then the little guys hear a noise and scurry off only one trips and gets stuck in the mud and as he’s desperately writhing around trying to free his legs…

…this guy appears and…well…I guess it was a life lesson but it was a bit much to end it all with the limp body thrashed around enthusiastically by razor fangs right in front of our faces.

After that traumatising event we headed over to the kids play aria to let them run free for a bit Sabi hates being stuck in a pram.

Lots of learning through play with magnifying glasses and insects…

..and light boxes with x-ray films.

Sabi loved this wombat and kept tying to get it to follow her like our dogs do at home.

Everyone had a ball and declared their undying love for the museum but this little girl was just priceless, she was just so giddy with excitement. The thrill of the museum burst out of her in giggly flappy arm moments of elation, so cute to watch.