busy day today – Science museum

actually, i think its been a bit busy both days. yesterday was a library day and then a trip into town to get SB’s eyes tested and then she will need some more glasses lets hope she doesn’t lose these ones as quickly. her eyes are still a little bit worse. BB had a massive strop in full bB mode in the shop because she wasn;t going to get some glasses. apparently she kept this up for quite a while… [so much so that SB doesn't have any glasses chosen yet]

Anyway, today we had promised the girls a visit to the science museum. we were going to go to an electronics workshop. we got to the museum, but the girls elected to do their own thing, so fair enough i guess. getting there was both easier and with a higher number of failures along the way! firstly we decided that we would park not in the exorbitant £6!! but at my work, and chris drop us off, and then cycle back after parking. that worked well. rather brainlessly, i bought a ticket right the way in, rather than the tube stop. and we just missed the 9am train. but happily got the next one, chris laughed at the wrong ticket, and then the ticket had the last laugh by not stopping at where we usually get off – so we did go all the way in! oh, and the other failure was the croissants and brioche left sitting at home… we did have loads of games of the fabulous treehouse game on the way in though.

ANyway we wandered around the spacey bit, spent loads of time in the launchpad. i particularly loved the dry ice ‘melting’ in water, and the girls both seemed captivated by the viscosity experiments – easily repeated at home! also, remember the waves of fire lecture? well, there is a sound to water waves tube here. not as exciting, but still rather fab!SB declared herself baffled by mirrors but the electic circuits were ‘too easy’. We then had lunch in the picnic area [home made soup and cheese scones] then we did a bit more launchpadding and followed our noses around the rest of the museum. we went into the computer bit. SB wanted to look at the pegasus computer, and when the chap came to speak to us, went completely quiet, and i couldn’t think of anything to say [unless it was can you make music with it!!] mind you, i think his first language may have been computer geek just as i was hoping the earth would open, SB asked a sensible question about the paper with holes in it. phew, exit not too embarrassedly. we really enjoyed the flight section – particularly bB who loved investigating the engines. i realised i had remembered more than i thought about the air traffic simulator i had had a go on as a child [my dad an ATC] and rather liked looking at it, and we searched for him in the relevant photos but didn’t find him.We had a short romp around the boats, and longer look at the ‘firsts’ [most impressed by stevensons rocket and Apollo 11 lander] and a bit of a play for bb in the pod bit. we were all tired then and made a break for home.

SB read a french story book rather well i thought, and something on planet earth while chris and bb snoozed, then with all more enthusiasm we played the treehouse game again! so that passed the time quickly [well, that and the m and s flapjacks]

SB has had brownies and judo, BB has vegged and watched my little execrable ponies [Bob, i believe it is trademarked as that] and then both together nanny mcphee before going to bed.