On this week’s
Adventure Day my two eldest granddaughters joined me on my adventure. After our
train trip into the city, first up was a short visit to the National Gallery of
Victoria.
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We love the water wall at the entrance of the National Gallery
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This was Mikayla’s first visit and she loved the water wall at the
entrance.
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| The Great Wall with it's amazing stained-glass ceiling |
She was also very impressed with the Great Hall with its spectacular stained-glass
ceiling. I agreed with Clare and Mikayla that this beautiful hall has a very
calming feel. Next it was down to Southbank for our lunch then it was off to
Walkers donuts, which is a regular place we visit seeing their surname is
Walker.
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| Clare and Mikayla are partial to a Walkers Donut |
Next was onto a tram to Melbourne Museum to visit the “Mini Mega Model
Museum”. This is a temporary exhibition that features a world of over 300
astounding models and miniatures from the museums own collection. The amazing
pieces of work ranged from a giant mosquito, a Colosseum made out of cork, a
very detailed miniature carousel and the most amazing dollhouse I could ever
imagine seeing.
It was unanimous
that the dollhouse was all of our favourite.
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| One very impressive doll house |
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| Incredible detail |
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| The carousel not only had incredible detail but was made with lots of recycled items. |
The dollhouse is
named Pendle Hall, a Georgian Mansion: 1940’s - 1980’s. It was made by Felicity
Clemens from Tasmania.
“Felicity felt her
daughters little dollhouse was to plain.
So, she improved it. Hugely. For 40
years.”
Then it was time to
head home on the train. Unfortunately, it was almost peak time and there were
no seats available. But the girls loved that idea and spent the trip home
giggling every time the train jerked and they wobbled around on their unstable
feet.
It was such a great
Adventure Day.
