Day 1791. Yesterday we stayed home. I taught from 1 to 3 pm, while Randy took the kids to the playground during this time. Not long after I was done teaching, they returned. I was taking a break on the balcony, where the kids then joined me and started blowing bubbles. Then we went inside. They wanted me to play games with them and bugged me long enough that I finally gave in. We took a few games downstairs and had a fun time playing three of them. Tammy won the first one and Emmy the second one. He was then crying, when he lost the third one.
This morning we left the house at 9:30 and took the subway downtown, then took the tram. We got to the natural history museum at 10 am and stopped right by the side entrance for wheelchairs. They told us to wait, then a nice, older man came to take us to the elevator to go up into the museum. Once inside, I waited with the kids, while Randy went with the guy to go buy the tickets. We were right by the dinosaur hall, where they had a moving dinosaur that roared, that got their attention. Emmy stood there saying he was not afraid, while Tammy didn't like it very much.
When Randy and the guy returned, he told us how to get up to the top level where the dinosaur show was starting at 10:30 am that we had bought tickets for.
We went inside the airconditioned room with a huge screen. They started looking at everything, then we sat down and the show started. A lady was the narrator and was asking questions that the kids answered. She led us threw time to the different eras with dinosaurs. Then she asked the kids to stand on the carpet in the middle, and suddenly they were on the screen - much to their delight. She then told them to pet the dinosaurs, which they did. Then some big ones came by and buried them in poop - twice - which caused lots of laughter. They also got to go underwater with the dinosaurs. It was a fun show.
After the show, we looked at some of the stuff they had in that room, including real ocean animals you could touch. Then we walked back to the elevator and went downstairs to the permanent museum. We first went through a temporary exhibition on the bugs in our soil, then walked through the big halls full of ocean animals and all kinds of other animals to follow. We did a lot of walking and there was a lot to see, but we walked through rather fast, only stopping when something got their attention or when there was something to touch or do.
Then we took the elevator one more floor down, with many more halls full of animals, and we ended it where it had started - with the dinosaurs. We had also seen the most important and most famous archeological find in Austria - the Venus from Willendorf.
I left Randy and the kids by the elevator and went to get someone to take us out of the building again, the way we had come. It ended up being the same guy. It was 12:40, when we left the museum, so we had been there for nearly 3 hours. We got on the tram and went to the McDonald's that was right there, when we got off. They got some toys they liked, and we had a good time eating there. Then we got on the subway to go home.
By 2:10 pm we were back home. I was really tired. We all ended up taking a break, lying down or sitting down to rest a little. At 3 pm I lay down to sleep and had a good nap. Before I got up, Randy had taken the kids downstairs to play. I then decided to stay upstairs and enjoy the quiet rathe than joining them downstairs. Soon enough they all came upstairs, and at 6 pm I went to the kitchen to start making their dinner.
