Choo Choo! Here Comes the Circus Train!

I mentioned in my last post that we went to the rail museum on the last weekend of our school holidays but due to the obscene amount of photos that I wished to post I decided to dedicate a whole post to the museum. I always have found it difficult in making decisions or choices with anything through my life and usually I miss out on things because I procrastinate for way too long, so I guess the same could be said with me regarding photos and posting excessive amounts of pictures all the time, its like I want to be fair to them all just in case one misses out and will ruin the story lol! Or maybe I am just terrible at making my mind up!

Its not that my photography is any good, even though I have a love for it, its just that this blog is like a diary for me and my children, the problem is I love everything that is remotely beautiful, always have and probably always will, so I just love taking photos, one day(in my spare time lol, like that will ever happen) I would love to take a course.

I remember when I was little at Easter time and the Easter Bunny came I was always overwhelmed with how beautiful all the wrapped Easter Eggs were so it would take me months to bring myself to unwrap them as I didn't want to ruin how beautiful they where. Once I delicately unwrapped them being ever so careful as to not rip the foil I would then collect all the beautiful wrappings and place them in a shoe box or something to treasure for ever! My poor mum she had to deal with my hoarding tendencies from an early age lol! So I guess it is something that is just ingrained in me from since I was just a tiny thing! Now if I could find away to make my disorder bring me wealth and success I will be well and truly on my way!

It was a perfect way to finish the holidays going to the Rail Museum and the theme for this school holidays was called the "Circus Train", which was perfect as in around a months time from now Amber and her fellow classmates will be holding their very own circus event. Amber is now in intense tightrope training for what I am sure will be a performance to remember.

I wasn't sure what to expect when we went out to Ipswich because I thought how exciting could a rail museum seriously be, just a shed full of old trains and a few guided tours, well I am happy to admit I was very wrong, it was seriously a whole lot of fun for young and old and very interactive. Amber is already busting for us to take her again.

I think Amber's favourite part of the museum were the shows, masterfully done by the same gentleman, who was a juggling clown in the morning and a ringmaster in the afternoon. We all had a wonderful day and are looking forward to the next time already............apparently the theme is train robberies, sounds intriguing I think!

I had to post these couple of photos of Aidan and my sisters little girl Makayla, I think the one of her looking through the bars of the cot and the look on her face is priceless(what a cheeky little monkey she was!).

On an ending note, we had a little visitor to our house on our first week back at school! I heard a bird chirping like it was distressed early in the evening and thought I would go take a look outside.......................and what did I find a baby Indian minor bird on our front veranda very distressed looking for its mother. It must have fallen out of its nest. Now I know these birds are a pest and destroy native birds nests and hollows, but I am one of those people that can't even hurt a fly, much to my dismay sometimes. So anyway we decided to keep the bird over night and try and release it first thing in the morning as it was going to be way to cold overnight. So we found a shoe box and put some holes in it and found an old cloth nappy and popped the bird inside for the night.

Amber kept asking if we were going to feed the bird and asked if she could have a little cuddle before we put him to bed for the night. I love taking care of animals, and would love to do charity work to help sick and injured animals, but having an indoor dog is just not conducive to doing this at the moment and I don't think I could handle living on less sleep that what I already do for the moment anyway, maybe when the children are a little older I might consider it.

Anyway the story has a happy ending as the bird managed to let itself out of the box in the morning and David placed him outside on the table first thing and when he came back he had successfully flown away. Its always a nice feeling to help out a poor defenceless creature and release it back into the world, hopefully in a much better state!