A few extra items from Canberra.

The National Museum was a brilliant bit of free entertainment...they could easily charge...we would have paid! It was a fascinating mix of things; our favourite section was a clever computer generated programme; it took your photo and then you had to choose various options to design your own alien vehicle or house; when about 10 people had completed this task we all put on 3D glasses and watched a virtual tour around this new alien town , which contained all our houses, moving cars and photos!!


A mapped out image of Australia...full of ideas and ideals.



We just missed the special chimes from this tower or carillon to be precise; It was a gift from British Government to Canberra. Better than a CD and a pair of socks I suppose but you not the sort of thing you can take back to the shops if you don't like it.



Is that a strange antenna growing from Chris's head?



Parliament House was a lot more interesting than we thought it would be; there was a horrible smell of manure though...(I wonder if that was the politicans talking !!)



Our final stop was to Questacon. It had come highly recommended so we had to go. It was
brilliant...full of interactive Science stuff......on all 5 floors;we did our best but we will have to go back because there was so much there that we didn't do it justice!
The vertical drop made all of our hearts go....Jessica took several attempts to pluck up the courage.....amazingly Alex went first and just did it! A 6m drop in total. Just another 128 m and we'll be able to do this in New Zealand!
The other photo was a screen which projected their images as they moved.
(Our camera doesn't take a very good dark shot...sorry!)