Last year we did the science scramble with Aunty Teesh and had a blast! This year Teesh is too busy gallivanting around Europe with her parents to do it so I dragged Nathan along instead!
We jumped straight into it this weekend, starting at the Canberra visitors centre, with some swimmer dude in the background. Maybe next year he can come down and do the science scramble with us instead of playing games in London!
The first stop was Parliament House to answer a question about a female engineer! Talking about females we saw they had portraits up of the first female politician, first female senators etc. but as yet hadn't added the portrait of the first female prime minister! (Unless it was somewhere else and we didn't see it!)
We had a quick look around and added it to the must come back and do properly list!
We whipped around The Old Parliament House Rose Garden to answer some horticulture questions!
From there we listened to our own echoes just down the road at the Magna Carta Monument. Three little boys did not enjoy that at all! Shouting out words like penis! And poo! And boogers!
A very quick stop in at the National Library and Questacon. Did you know the National Library has a globe that spins all by itself!
We lifted the marble ball outside Questacon ourselves and found it weighed 633kgs!
A short drive away was the Galleries where we got to have some fun with my favourite sculpture. Ryan is spinning it on his finger!
Ben is holding it with his fingertips.
But Mummy made a spit bubble! Gross!
The next morning it was up and at it again early. Only this time we took our bikes and rode to all the points along the lake.
They tried to weigh anchor but it was waaayyy too heavy!
At the Captain Cook Monument they answered a question on astronomy and then pondered the great waters of Lake Burley Griffin.
Nice Bums!
Along the foreshore of the lake is what is called the Australian of the Year walk. The bollards that the boys are standing next to are placed on musical stave lines and all the bollard read as a musical note that makes the national anthem. Cool hey! I learnt that when we did a cruise on HMS Jenny at Floriade one year.
Now you may think this is just a photo of boys in silly poses but this was a question about the War Memorial in the background. Which means that this is the boys posing as soldiers! Ryan is throwing a grenade, Matthew is shooting a rifle and Ben has a bazooka! Of course! Only mothers of three boys would be able to decipher this photo!
We had a quick stop for smoko! Thank goodness Nathan had thought to bring a hot chocolate because the breeze on the lake was chilly!
After a little rest it was back on the bike for a beautiful ride through the sculpture garden. One of my favourite places in Canberra. Nathan tested the boys by asking how many cones they saw. Matthew counted the correct number of cones where as Ryan and Ben counted the number of shapes, which was two cones together, so they were half right!
Last stop was at the site of their future tattoos! A southern cross at the Munnari Artwork.
Once again we had a great time doing the science scramble. It felt like it was heaps shorter this year, which Nathan was very happy with! If you live in Canberra get out and do it you still have time left, entries close on the 15th October!
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