Australia Museum

Kate has been banished - sent to stay with friend Janet in Mosman for a couple of days post-christmas relaxation. There were a few indicators that Kate might be of some well-needed rest when she tried to polish the kitchen table with spray adhesive.

So with Kate away, we need to keep the children engaged. Off to Australia Museum on College Street. The Museum exhibits Australian natural sciences and cultural history from Aboriginal culture, local flora and fauna (and there is quite a bit of that) and so on.

The Kidzone has a series of pods exhibiting insects, sea-life, volcanos etc, and Hannah, Zach and Thomas move from one to another to look at stick insects and spiders under the microscope.

Hannah models her new butterfly wings...

One section of the museum contains a definitive exhibition of Australian birds, insects and spiders. All three really enjoyed this and took time to look at most of the exhibits - at least the ones at their eye level. I'll spare the spider pictures.

Third turkey in three days - one in our garden, one in the park, and another in the museum (it's Brush Turkey (not Bush Turkey, as I have been calling it).

The final section is Search & Discover - an information and resource centre. One of the staff members kindly explained how an echidna eats only ants, and sent them on a 20 minute exploration to find an Echidna feces display. Lovely.

We also discovered that a Zach Turtle can't carry a Thomas.

Captions welcome for Thomas below.

My go.... "Schieß' auf die Fenster!" (You would have to know: (A) Die Hard (B) Some basic German (C) That Tatti, our Aupair, is German).