Spanspek

Today's was a short day—good for travelling children. We went to the Natural History Museum in South Kensington. Admission is free and the line moved quite quickly. We didn't attempt to see everything, just the "earth" section and the dinosaurs. Both are very well done. I think the Melburne Museum has improved greatly since I was a child, especially in its new building, but it's rather pedestrian by comparison! The earth section has a lot about volcanoes and earthquakes, including a simulation of an earthquake in Kobe, complete with shaking walls and floor. Daniel really liked that, and, disturbingly, was quite taken with the model of the wall collapsed on the car. The dinosaurs are great: robotic velociraptors, psittacosaurus and a scale model of a T-Rex. Daniel, even though he knows it's not real, spent a lot of time taunting it—"you can't get me", roaring, and the like. Marvellous stuff!