MOTAT and Fairy Weekend

On Saturday we took Zoe to MOTAT (Museum of Transport and Technology) http://www.motat.org.nz/  We took Zoe there on 1st February 2009 and it has become a favourite place.


The mirror maze is a favourite as were the other mirrors.

Where is Zoe?

Long Tall Zoe

Engine Detail

Little had changed since our first visit. The main interactive area is to do with light, lasers and such like.

At lunch time we sat at an area near stilts and a large draughts board. Somehow we managed to play a game of chess with them.

Chess?

The sun became too hot and we concluded with a game of hide and sink which took us back through the mirror maze and eventually on to the tram back to the car.


The journey back was slow and the beach at Mission looked like Southend beach on a good British holiday.


We had noticed a Coca Cola event on the green at St Heliers, but although we got free Colas we were a bit too tired to stay.

Pop Event at St Heliers

The evening meal was a tasty Thai take-away followed by raspberry sorbet. The main course was washed down by delicious Montieth's Single Source Lager Beer. http://singlesource.co.nz/ I collected it from the local liquor store. I was invited into the cold, beer store to find it.


On Sunday morning Zoe had her City Nippers activity on the beach.

Emily played fairy sand castles with Nanny.

Sand Throne

Zoe and Ian went off to a social event put on by his employer. The remaining three of us set off in search of fairy things. First we went to Wendy's (a burger place) for lunch because it was near the pool shop where Sally had to go to have their pool water analysed.


The Fairy Shop was in Ponsonby which is a city suburb. We purchased our fairy present for Zoe's birthday and then a kind fairy (shop assistant in fairy dress) offered me glass of water while I waited for Emily to try on a dress ready for her 5th birthday party in May.

Back home the pool water was clean again and Emily enjoyed a few minutes in the water alone while I sat and read my book. The pool temperature was only 25 degs which is too cold for me.