Saturday in Wellington
We had a bit of a Saturday morning sleep in, not really that much though. The kids were up early ready to rock and roll. And by Rock and Roll I mean get on their iPads and giggle. I zipped down to the local foursquare to buy some breakfast foods and some coffees for us from the cafe.
Once everyone was breakfasted we jumped in the car and headed for Te Papa Museum. We found a park and spend about 3-4 hours exploring around Te Papa. We looked at the Nature Area, then Upstairs to the Treaty of Waitangi exhibition (it's just a copy but Beth was still keen to see it), before getting a bite to eat at the cafe, then walking around and see Phar Lap's skeleton, colour in some wallpaper for Matariki and the went to see Britton bike. Saw some artwork.
Then we went downstairs to see the War exhibition. I hate it. Not because it's not amazing, because it is. I just don't like how depressing it is. Anyway the kids went through it and didn't ask too many questions. Then we went outside to run around the Forest section, then back for some proper lunch, before heading over to the Brickman Jurassic World Lego exhibition. To be honest that was a bit shit, it cost $100 to get in for a family of four and really there was about 1 room of actual cool legos to look at, then about 3-4 rooms of "activities" for the kids to do which weren't really that much. And the shit we were at the end. I heard many people saying to each other "Oh that's IT?" and then heading back into the last room with their kids to re-do the activities. I mean it was fine, but for $100 they'd have enjoyed staying at Te Papa for another 2 hours.
We left there and walked into town town to ride the Cable Car. Theo halfway up "When does it fly?" thinking it was like a chair lift. Poor fella was a little disappointed when we explained it wasn't like that, it was just a cable pulling us up the hill. We had a quick look around up the top, then headed back down. Theo and I power walked back to Te Papa to get the car while the girls waited, then we came back home!
For dinner we went out to Cobb & Co, where we were quite amazed to see a robot zooming around singing "Happy Birthday" to people and carrying food. Turns out it's a thing now.
Then back to bed, everyone was super exhausted, the kids didn't even really put up a fight in their double bed, there was very little chatter before both of them were fast asleep.
A very happy successful day, everyone had a great time. Though I'm still a bit annoyed about the lego thing. But it was a great day, the kids loved it and that's all that matters.
Tim