What a day. Iz tired.
I took the little one for an “exploring” afternoon today. It started with a train trip … in which everytime we went through a tunnel he freaked out and was rather relieved to see daylight each time we came through the other side. What made me giggle was the exclamation “Mummy we don’t have seatbelts! I can stand up!” In which he did stand and refused to sit down. Me? I sat there rather amused.

Then we arrived into the hustle and bustle of the city. People everywhere and noise. I grew up here, you think I would be used to it but I hate the city. Too much noise, too many people has me in uber stress mode, but we were on an adventure, it was his day. We had lunch then jumped on a bus. I got away with him being “under five” all day today which means I saved money hehe. He’s little and easily mistaken for an under five year old,the joys of having a vertically challenged mummy…. he inherited my height.
I had no freekin idea where to get off the bus to get to our destination, the museum, so a guess and a wee tramp and lo and behold, I’d figured it out well enough to have gotten off at the right stop. I hadn’t been here for quite a few years so I had memories off my own. It still looked the same as it did when I was little. A foreboding building steeped in history. Only difference was when I was little it seemed huge and endless. Much to my surprise it now seems small inside and I wasn’t that impressed.

The little one had fun though, taking great delight in leading me into the children’s discovery section and throwing a freekin fake spider at me. I screamed. Everyone looked at me as if I had grown a third head. The little one … rolling round the floor in hysterics. Me … mumbling and dragging him outta there after passing a glass case full of live cockroaches (stifling yet another scream) … I’d had my fill of freeking horrid bugs for the day. Remind me now why I thought a museum trip would be fun?
I got my revenge dragging him through the volcanic section, actually we had to get through it to get to the next exhibit. He wasn’t having any of it. I ended up picking him up and covering his eyes as we walked through. He loved most of the exhibits but had a lady in fits of giggles when we got to the armery/war section and he proclaimed in his loudest voice looking at all the guns… “Where’s the rocket launcher mummy?” (I swear he watches far too much Ben 10)
We bustled through the various exhibits and a sense of sadness hit me going through the hall of names. All the men who lost their lives in World War II. My poppa’s friends names were on there. I remember as a child Poppa showing me his friends names and the silence that followed. An eerie place to be. The little one completely oblivious to that room and its meaning.

After an exhausting (full of whinging that his feet hurt) wander through this old building full of wonders we decided to go have a bite to eat and mummy desperately in need of a little quiet and fresh air we decided to wander down to the Wintergardens. I loved this place as a kid. I used to pretend I was in another world. Like a secret garden, but now it doesn’t seem as magical either. What is it we lose as we grow older? I need to travel more, all those new places are the ones that hold that magical feeling we have as children when we discover new things, thats what I miss.

Out of the whole day though, watching my son take delight in all the new and amazing things he saw … that was magical.

















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