So last week Mummy took me to GOMA, Brisbane's Gallery Of Modern Art. I was really worried cos I thought we would be there all day (it was a really big building) and I would be bored looking at the art that Mummy wanted to look at....but it turns out we were there to go to an exhibit just for kids! It was called Kangaroo Crew and it had stories and paintings and lots of activities!
There were 4 different kinds of kangaroo (Tree Kangaroo, Plains Kangaroo, Rock Wallaby and Potoroo) and they all lived on and around Sacred Hill, but then a load of Mynahs (geddit?) came and took over and forced them out. But eventually they realised that if all the kangaroos joined together they couldn't be defeated and they took the hill back and the mynahs left!
Here are the happy kangaroos before the mynahs arrived.
This is the Sacred Hill.
These are the naughty mynahs!
And this is the moment when they decided to work together!
It was a great story and I decided to make a tree kangaroo mask after I watched it.
Then I made my own electronic poster with me starring as Zippy Zack the Potoroo! I emailed it straight to Grandpa and Daddy because those were the only addresses I could remember!
Then I discovered the kangaroo arcade games! They were really cool and had great music that made me want to dance. But I don't think I played the game properly.....I just kept pressing the same button over and over again. It was great fun!
But the best thing was definitely climbing up the Sacred Hill and pretending to be a kangaroo! I loved that and really didn't want to go home!
As we were going into town to have lunch, we saw a crowd gathering and the sign said there was going to be dancing so we stayed to watch. It was a local Aboriginal dance troupe (fom Stradbroke Island in Moreton Bay, not far away) who have toured the world.
The music and dancing was very different to anything I have seen before and I didn't really know what to make of it. It was fascinating...the music came from a wooden stick with a hole in it called a didgeridoo (as well as a bit of tapping and chanting) and the dancers wore as much white paint as they did clothes!
It was very energetic! Mummy took a little video. This was the crane dance, where they were all pretending to be cranes. They were very good and I was sad when Mummy said it was time to go get lunch.
Since then, I have been swimming a lot, and I have been out to meet Daddy's work friends (I was very well behaved and everyone said I was really cute - this is a persona which I intend to cultivate.....it may come in useful in the future....).
I have also been to music class and to the playground and today I had lunch at a Lebanese restaurant overlooking the river, so I could spot all the boats (and jet ski's and paddle boards) going up and down the river!
I also got to Skype with Granny, Aunty Tory, Uncle Simon and my cousins P and T! And then, just as I thought it was bedtime, I got to talk to Nana too!
A good day....but tomorrow might be even better, Mummy says Uncle Geoff and Ashleigh are coming to visit!
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