Another interesting building that houses the now 500, 000 piece collection which is arranged according to how the object was used rather than by age or origin. The children once again each selected a trail to complete - Ella chose 'Charms' and Katy 'The Great Wooden Mouse Hunt'. These trails provided the opportunity to wander around the museum trying to find wooden mice (Katy) and specific charms (Ella) while looking at exhibits and chatting about the sometime weird and wonderful objects inside!
We concluded our tour of the museum by making a Uchiwa, a japanese fan which came in very handy, providing s little bit of relief from the hot weather.
On the way home we stopped off at Ferry Leisure Centre for a swim in the learning pool. Harry, one of Katy's nursery friends was there too and together they enjoyed playing in the water.
On Monday, Andy did a final school drop off for each of the girls before catching the train to a 2 day conference in Buckinghamshire.
Tuesday was the girls last day at Cuttleslowe Primary School. They both enjoyed the experience and will miss their teachers and new friends.
In between packing on Wednesday, the girls and I played hide and seek, painted our nails, went swimming, watched Come Outside (an old BBC kids show which Ella has recently discovered), ate our last chocolate owl at the coffee shop and visited the post office! Andy arrived home just in time to read some bedtime stories :)
It's now Thursday morning - our last day!! Katy and I've been writing this while Andy and Ella are still sleeping. It will be a fairly easy day we don't fly out until 8pm tonight. FInal pack and clean up of the house, a detour to Robin and Jo's to drop off some goodies then on to Windsor Park for picnic and play before starting the loooong journey home.
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Have a safe trip back. I'm sure you're all looking forward to getting back home.
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