Big day in town

We went to see the mammoths at the museum today. I was surprised that Louka seemed more interested in the hut constructed of mammoth bones than she was in the huge reconstructed mammoth father and child, or the skeleton, and her arm was too short to use the mammoth trunk to pick up a ball. She watched a video about disinterring mammoth remains from a block of stone (or possibly frozen mud); there was a reconstruction of the block there with the tusks sticking out looking very strange.



She was happy to move on to the dinosaurs, but even they have lost a lot of their interest. She watched the movie once, dug in the sandbox and designed her own on the computer, but didn't want to see the actual displays. So we headed to the bistro for lunch.

After lunch we went shopping for some winter pyjamas. Louka still kicks off the doona, so the fleecy all-in-one type with feet works best. They only go up to size 3 so she'd better start using the doona by next winter*.

Then she noticed the monorail and, since I'd promised to take her for a ride on it, I thought this was as good an opportunity as any. We got a carriage to ourselves for the whole round trip. I don't think it can make too much money. Louka quite enjoyed it, but wasn't excited. She didn't remember the last time we went on it, when she was about 18 months old and cried the whole time.

* When we got home, she watched Play School, had afternoon tea, and fell asleep ― under the doona.