Museum Junkies

Wednesday was a very rainy day, and one of the challenges of moving to a big city with small boys is finding places to burn energy. Especially on really wet miserable days. 

I had been thinking our first trip to Te Papa, the national museum would be a SPECIAL occasion type trip, saved up and then relived for months. However I changed my mind after three hours of building huts, reading stories and racing cars along the sunporch. Hide and seek only burns so much boy energy, especially as these boys tend to find one hiding place (under the covers of Mum and Dads bed) and go back there everytime!

So off we went to Te Papa. Our mission was to find a dinosaur. Although we found plenty of bones and a giant squid, trekked around the place for hours, and even had lunch of jelly at the cafe, the absolute highlight would have to have been.... the hand driers in the toilets. 

What oohs and ahhs they produced as we all took turns putting our hands under  'ON!' and taking them away 'OFF!'. We peered up them and banged them abit to wee what that did. Amazing piece of technology, and the wonderful preservation of our countries national treasures was you know, quite fun too.