Children's Festival
Trip Start
May 31, 2008
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9
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Trip End
Aug 31, 2008
Brisbane,
Australia
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Our first shows the the traditional songs and dances of different cultures such as Aboriginal, Torres Strait and the Pacific Island. It was really interesting and lots of fun, Ellen was right up the front on her little cushion but she did decline the invitation to have a go on stage !
Ellen was then keen to have a look around the Queensland Art Gallery, It was a wonderful building with lots of relaxing water features. Zoe was a little surprised at Ellen's keen interest in art but happily answered all of her questions :)
City Cat
. There was a big painting of Jesus so Ellen was very happy !Next we went to an exhibition called 'Family Album' where children explore different ways to create an album and take photo's themselves, this was one of my favorites - take a look at the photo's.
We then went to the Megaphone Project where Ellen spent lots of time running from one giant megaphone to another shouting as loud as possible and she also made one to bring home which she toot tooted through all the way home and for the next 4 hours !
Lastly we had a story telling session where we heard an aboriginal story about a min min - Ellen enjoyed it
To end our very busy day Zoe made me go to her spinning class, which for those of us who had never heard of such a thing - It is where you ride an exercise bike for 45 minutes in what looks like a broom cupboard with someone shouting at you when to turn the gears up and when to stand up - It was an experience !!
We have also introduced Zoe and Har to the wonders of High School Musical - now they have the bloody songs in their heads too :)
