A day out!

D's Sis and Partner went home on Friday lunch time, leaving us with the two boys till Monday lunch time! Now we are all four kids together, we can start having real Kid fun wooooooooot! (as runescapers will know, it now genrally means hooray, having started off with a different meaning)

We took the car to a Science Park within reasonable driving distance called Magna. Its in a suburb of Sheffield called Rotherham. Sheffield, many years ago had a thriving steel industry, but sadly as it became cheaper to make it elsewhere, the foundries closed, leaving just a few still going today.

Magna Science Park is in an old foundry - its a truely massive place. We purchased lunch en route at a supermarket (Pork pie for D, sausage rolls for the boys, cheese and onion rolls for me, made nicer with hommus, carrot sticks, grapes, pineapple juice and water. yum!) as lunch at theme park type places always empties your purse more than it should.

We went in, and looked up - the top of the building seemed a very very long way away. The boys were impressed by someone abseilling down from high up, and M (the younger one) decided it looked quite scary. This was a special event, not open to anyone who just fancied a go.

Magna is split up into the elements, Earth Air Fire and Water. This is in the Earth section, but it was a hydraulic air pump, so this photo shows M being pumped up on a small platform by his big brother.


We enjoyed exploring each element, with interactive games and experiments in each section, the best bits were fire and water - M was absolutley desperate to do the water bit.. and revelled in getting totally soaked!



The Fire bit was pretty good too.. especially the fire whirlwind, which, although it didnt last long was pretty "cool" and helped to dry soggy nephew out a bit :-) Non soggy nephew is pictured.. he thought it was pretty cool too!



We were there for about 3 hours, D drove home. The older two kids (me and D) were pretty tired, so collapsed in a heap whilst the younger two (wish permission) vanished up to plug their brains into the internet. M decided he too, wanted to Blog, so he spent quite a while writing his first few bits up. A few more years and he will become a "blogger of note"!!