Over the summer we took a trip to the Natural History
Museum in London. We have taken the boys once before and they loved
it and Joe was desperate to visit again. Luckily our great friends Ruth Darren
and Finlay were visiting London at the same time so we all met up and visited
together.
What absolutely amazes me is that is it free, I
can't get over this as it must cost a fortune to maintain and run, and there is
always something new to see.
Joe and Fin loved the planet earth section and
found going up the escalator into a red glowing planet really exciting, to be
honest they whizzed around this section buzzing from one stand to another
looking at the pictures, trying the interactive features. Whilst the rest of us
took our time and read the notes attached to the exhibits. It was quite
difficult to read and keep one eye on that pair buzzing excitedly around. They
loved the earthquake simulator, and found the whole section around that very
interesting.
But what they really wanted to see was the
dinosaurs, last time we visited Joe was only 2 and found it really frightening,
it was great that this time he really enjoyed it. And spent some time looking
at all the species, marvelling at how huge they are.
