It's been a busy few days - first with M's birthday gathering on Friday night - and then the Queensland Museum with the children yesterday. But first things first ... M's birthday dinner was good fun - especially seeing the look on her face when she saw the cake! I think it was our best effort so far ... although the Senior's Cake last year was pretty good (even if I do say so myself!). We had dinner this year at Sky, a new Chinese restaurant in Broadbeach - so new, it doesn't really have much of a web presence. It was quite good, and because none of us imbibes, they fairly much left us alone once we had ordered and the food had been delivered. We were, of course, the usual suspects - you could have just transported us from the Sunday Markets to there - except at Sky we were around a large round table with a Lazy Susan in the middle. Ze and Mu managed to keep themselves amused for the time we were there - especially Mu who had been playing with my iPod and found the pedometer function - so he walked around the restaurant trying it out - and by the time we stopped him for cake, he had nearly 1,000 steps. You could very easily power a small African nation off Mu's energy if you could find a way to extract it. Ze isn't too bad herself. She surprised us with her version of Gangnam style as we walked from the Toilets back to Sky. She is a natural.
We decided not to give M her gift on the night because we couldn't decide how to wrap it! How do you wrap a bicycle and accessories? And how do you hide it in a restaurant? We did have the photographs Mi took of it though - and she and FI (who had picked it all up from J my mate at (my old) work also brought along the helmet and the bike pump - which Mu had great fun with on the night. How high could you get the pressure if someone held their fingers over the air holes while someone else pumped? Hours of fun for him at least, although lots of us had a go on the pump with him. Some of us didn't have our reading glasses on so it's a bit hard to tell how well we did - but he seemed to think we'd done okay!
The Queensland Museum was fun too ... although we could have picked a drier day to go there. We had planned to drive up but when Fl suggested we take the train, and when it was bucketing down, and that seemed like an excellent idea, we headed for the train station. None of us was to know - because it wasn't advertised on their website (as checked by M) that there were track works for the weekend! The announcement came over the loudspeaker as we waited on the Platform, just after purchase of GoCard tickets (7 GoCards, 7 individual transactions - thanks Queensland Rail) that we would have to train it and then bus the rest of the way into South Brisbane. There's nothing like an adventure! And it was ... Especially when the bus driver we had broke with tradition and left us off right at the door of the Museum so we didn't have to trek through the rain to get there!
The Dinosaur exhibition was spread over three levels of the Museum so there was much to look at - and much to play with as lots of the display was aimed at children. Mu and Ze seemed to enjoy it - but given that they are a boy and a girl, they liked playing with different things. It is amazing to see how different their attention spans are as well - something I hadn't really noticed in the times when we've been playing at the Markets.
We braved the rain (it had eased from "bucketing" to "light showers") to walk across the bridge, over the Brisbane River, to go to Fat Noodle for lunch, over at the Treasury Casino. Because we had children and backpacks with us, we couldn't go in the main entrance, so we didn't get the feel of walking into a wonderful noodle bar where you can see the food being prepared, but we were more than happy to take our seats and order lunch (which we had around 5pm). It was as wonderful as I remembered, and everyone seemed to enjoy it - although Mu was fairly tired at that point and managed to catch some zzzz's on his chair.
Then it was back to the trains (we managed not to have to catch a bus to get home) and more iPad play for the children. It was a great day, but it was nice to get home.
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