Big day at the museum

I thought Louka quite enjoyed the museum last time we visited. But that was nothing to today.

She had been talking about seeing the dinosaurs in the museum over the last couple of days, so this morning I suggested it and she said yes. After the usual slow start (cleaning teeth, getting out of the bath, getting dressed etc) we headed to the station. When we reached the city I asked if she wanted to see Dad before going to the museum, but no, she wanted the museum first.

At the museum the ticket seller suggested looking at the skeleton exhibition. There were lots of young schoolkids there who seemed to enjoy it, but Louka soon tired of it. So we headed upstairs where I knew the dinosaurs were. But on the way we found Kidspace, the museum's play area for under-fives. They had some great stuff to play with, especially a sort of doll-house made from a hollowed-out branch, with working doors, staircases and little wooden people to inhabit it.


I eventually dragged Louka away for lunch at the museum café (we shared a quite reasonable plate of fish and chips) after which she became keen again to see the dinosaurs. And this time I think she would have stayed till museum closing time, checking out the model dinosaurs, the skeletons, the eggs, and playing with the create-your-own-dinosaur touch-screen computer and the sandbox of bones to "unearth". And she watched the Lark Quarry movie at least three times.