Roar!

Roar go the 2 little dinosaurs. Roar goes mummy. Today was all about dinosaurs. As it was torrential rain last night and this morning, I thought we might do something a little more adventurous and exciting and indoors. So we ventured into the city and went to the museum which has a really cool dinosaur playground.  I didn't get lost. Normally it's like a rabbit warren to get into the city but today it all just flowed really well. The 2 boys were so great today. Bailey spent most of the day walking freely around. I really don't know why I took the stroller. I think it's just to carry the hoards of stuff I feel like I take everywhere with the boys. In actual fact I think it's just food that I'm constantly carrying around. I should just put our fridge on wheels.

We discovered lots of wonderful things today. We started off looking at a dinosaur skeleton and then moved on to a marine exhibit, focusing mostly on turtles. We saw turtle eggs and eggs hatching. We saw baby turtles and people measuring them to monitor them. Then we moved on to another exhibit all about cars, trains and planes from the olden days, and then we moved on to an exhibit all about predators. When I say we moved on to another exhibit I mean Bailey ran and Brandon and I ran to catch him, and whatever area he ran to then that's what we looked at. We stayed there for hours. Eventually the 2 boys and I headed out of the museum down to the river where we found a nice shady tree and had lunch. I had made some delicious veggie wraps and fruit salad. This was our view that we sat looking at while eating lunch.

With full bellies the 2 boys and I went off on a huge walk. We walked through a rain forest. We walked through a Nepaleas pagoda. We walked up hills and down hills and went to walk up more hills but it was at this point that both boys decided to get into the stroller. So up the next hill we all go with me pushing probably close to 50-60 kg (remember I have a fridge on wheels with me). Nothing like a bit of hard exercise in about 35 degree heat. We found  the lolly shop so the sweat was all worth it, and the shop was air conditioned. Stocked up with sugar off we went to find our car which was about 10kms away underground. Eventually we found it. Turned air conditioner on full and tried to eliminate 3 very red faces. Mission accomplished so off we went.

Thought we would visit daddy on the way home which was lovely. Once home we drank about 2 litres of water each and then sat down for 30 seconds, and that's all that it was. We did have a fairly quiet afternoon, although it was late afternoon when we did get home so we were cooking dinner before we knew it. I cooked the boys dinner while daddy did book-keeping. The boys ate dinner outside and then actually had a play. Then the regular night time routine kicked in and so did the chaos and madness. Bedtime and then calmness.