A Saturday outing

Charles and I did seven interesting things today. We left early to collect our ticket for Malvin Tix the musical clown. We parked under Te Papa and on the way to get the tickets stopped to look at a display of big trucks. Clearly fascinating in their own way to a section of the community. Because we were early we had time after getting the tickets to go over to the water front. Charles noticed a digger so we watched trucks being loaded by a digger that I removing a hill by the lagoon near the rowing club ( the wheel wash was particularly interesting) and to have a look at a display at Te Papa that Charles wanted to show me - about how a fault works. You can press on a lever to build up stress and then the rupture occurs. This was topical as we had a magnitude 5 earthquake during the night and we had been talking about it. We bought something to eat at Te Papa and then went over to the concert. It was first class. Malvin Tix is a very talented musician and clown from Norway and he was conducting the NZSO. Charles was totally engaged for the whole performance. We decided after this we didn't want to go home yet so walked to the new Playground at Waitangi Park. It was a nice sunny day and out of the wind very pleasant. We then felt we wanted to see more of Te Papa. We tried one of the rides (Magic Lilo's - magic seemed to be a theme for the day -large reclining chair that moves as you fly over NZ - slightly sea sickish but reassuring as Charles pointed out that we weren't really lifting up!), looked at the presentation called Golden Days (Kiwi memorabilia) and spent some time in the Pacific Discovery centre. We decided we would go back again in the holidays. By this time we were both hungry and in Charles' case wanting to play on a playground. Where else to go but McDonald's! On the way we stopped to buy Charles a new wallet and a magic book ( you rub patches to find answers to questions). On Charles' count 7 adventures.