I Like to Move It, Move It .....

Yes, I have been to see Madagasca 2 and it drove me nuts during the movie trying to guess who was doing the voices of all the animals, lol. The story was fairly hokey but with many humerous moments and more than enough to keep a young boy enthralled. My favourite is the penguins who have some very witty lines. I was also happy to see there is going to be an Ice Age 3 as we saw the trailor for that before the movie. I do hope it is as funny as the first one as I was a little disappointed in Ice Age 2.

We had begun the day with a slowish morning as we had some of series 3 of 'Danger Mouse' (a cartoon the boys and I used to watch years ago) to see. Breakfast done, we walked up and the bus arrived at the same time we did which then dropped us right outside the cinema doors. We were a little early so browsed through Whitcoulls and then got our tickets, popcorn and drink for the big event.

Movie over, we went down to the food hall to McDonalds for lunch and got the lion toy with the child meal for the lad - a total hit there. We walked out the back door of the cinema theatres, across the road and we were at Te Papa. I have only been there to see specific exhibitions before so this was my first time looking at other displays. Saw the HUGE squid remains (in preservative) that was found not so long ago - a truely hideous beast and definitely the thing horror movies could be made about. I have to say, I thought the whole naturalist part, with skeletons of dinosaur type creatures, whales, moas etc was very good and would give the naturalist museum in London a run for its money (notice am STILL getting mileage out of that trip, LOL). I particularly liked the bird sections as they had sounds to go with the exhibits. It was a trifle bizarre seeing Phar Lap's skeleton in a display case after seeing his heart at the National Museum in Canberra. I tend to think that maybe he should be all together as his skin is in another museum. It seems a somewhat sad end to such a fine animal - maybe if he was together he could be shared to each museum for a few months at a time.

There are lots of interactive parts to the museum and it too has room you can experience an earthquake in while footage runs of the Edgecumbe earthquake in 1987 (which I remember of course). The grandson was particularly interested in the volcano and earthquake exhibits with all the interactive bits and pieces. I was amazed how it took him only two or three goes to work out what to do (at 6 yrs old) and marvelled at the technology bought to bear in many of the exhibitions. We didn't do too much 'olden day' stuff as that did not appear to hold any interest for the lad though we did watch several short movies on where people live and how people came to live in NZ - all very interesting.

It was just on 5pm when we left the museum and grabbed an ice cream before catching another bus back home. A quick stop to get some more vegies and back for another barbeque dinner - yay. I have babysat tonight while son and daughter in law went out for coffee and a game of 10 pin bowling. After such a big day, the lad was out to the count not long after they left so it has been a quiet evening. Am about to head off to bed as the zoo could be on the cards for tomorrow's activities - will be dependent on the weather and then I think Thursday may be an at home day. I was told the movie was awesome and today was a much better day than yesterday, so no pressure for the rest of the week, lol.