This morning off to the National Museum for a look. They had some good displays and a kids zone where the kids got to design a future house or car and then got to view a 3d video with their (and some others) creations included as part of the video, The kids thought this was pretty cool and did this twice!

It was interesting to wander around the museum, as many of the displays were about towns and areas we have now visited, in the flesh so to speak. Interesting to see what small part of an area was included here, when some of the areas being talked about are huge!

After lunch we treked over to the National War Museum, and my it has taken on some recent changes. The older part is still there but now in addtion there are areas with sound and light shows, so you feel like you really are part of a bombing raid on Germany, or on a helicopter in the Vietnam War. They were really well done. Only thing was I could not decide whether they made war sound more or less attractive, as they almost made it almost seem like fun (and educational). Again they had created an area for kids, which was well done, and at least this made it interesting for the kids and not some old boring thing. Much more here than we initially thought so will need to return in the morning for some more viewings.

We did manage to watch the closing ceremony with a Scottish Piper, which was rather special.

On the way home we thought we'd visit the Telstra tower on Black hill. It sounded like it had a resturant and coctail bar, plus a couple of cafes. Well, maybe it used to be good, but now very run down, and the cafe was closed, and now the gift shop sold coffee and pre packed cake as well. The view was still good but since you have to pay a fee to go up, cost us approx $30, I do not think it was worth the effort. Guess as a tourist you sometimes just have to do these things!