Darwin Day 2, museum and wave pool

Enjoying the wave pool

Enjoying the water.

TIO STADIUM 

Boys will be boys

Well after a night of scratching the life out of my legs, I got up and we all were off to the museum in Darwin, it free so that’s even better. We then said to the kids we’ll do the wave pool as Mark had looked up the free water park and it was closed Wednesday and Thursday and the look on the kids faces was such extreme disappointment as these were the 2 days left in Darwin. The wave pool they were happy to go to. Arrived at the Museum at 10.30am before all the tour buses arrived, so interesting. I had said to the boys they were to come out with some facts and to tell me about them, do I sound like the teacher now, probably. They certainly did that, they sat watched a movie on a capture of a crocodile, called ‘sweetie’ who was 5.5 metres long and how she wasn’t meant to die, they were trying to move the crocodile to somewhere else but it got strangled under the boat and died. The most interesting part was the cyclone Tracy section of the museum. This area tells you all about the cyclone and then in each section they have reenactments, for instance the lounge room all set up with the xmas tree in the corner and the old fashioned radio and couch. The boys learnt about when it hit and then the most horrifying bit was going into a booth room that has recordings of the cyclone hitting. It gave us an idea the sound and what it would of felt like. Oliver and Lily did not go in there. Oliver’s greatest fear. Very interesting museum. Lunch and off to the wave pool. We arrive, walk along Oliver says,” Not much of a wave pool if there’s no waves”. He was right but he made me laugh. Hang on a minute, a siren sounds then bang waves start getting bigger and bigger. There’s a system, 20 mins of waves and then 10 mins of normal pool swimming. Well Oliver and Dylan were in their element, they love the waves at the beach and these were the same. What I loved was the fact there was no sand. Behind where we sat was a small wading area that Lily frolicked in and loved it. We left there around 4.30pm as we were going over to Casuarinas shopping centre so I could buy some shorts, yes I got some more and Mark bought some more music for the CD player. On the way back to camp we looked up where TIO Stadium is, as Oliver wanted to see where the AFL game is played when it’s up here. Its not far so we visit and its open, no one around, great go for it kick some goals boys. Oliver even doing his famous handstand AGAIN. Better get home sun is going down on TIO Stadium. Great day!!