Hand launched propeller at the museum

We have a wooden Chinese chopstick, and on that is a plastic propeller. If you spin it in your hands and let it go the whole contraption will fly up in the air (or in your face, depending on what direction you spun it). So needless to say I don't spin that propeller for Kien often.

We went for a visit to the Auckland museum the other day, and spent a good deal of time spinning and chasing the propeller in the lovely sunshine.







I love this place! I love the big open courtyard, the canons out the front, the wide steps, the tall structural columns...I could go on and on, and that's just the exterior of the War Memorial Museum!







I have lots of wonderful memories of this place during my high school years; this was one of my top 3 favourite places to visit when I needed to escape. I know, I look back now at how innocent I was, when at that time I was thinking how naughty it was of me not to be in classes! But I was learning none the less, soaking up all the information contained in this place, and letting my imagination wander as I pretended I was living in various times - my favourite being the nineteenth century. I even assigned my friends their own houses, stores, and occupations, and we would have make believe sessions of acting the scenes out, right there on the top floor in the Auckland 1866 replica section. OMG, I am such a geek!



Another part of this splendid museum is here.



I'm sure I have photos stashed away somewhere of my "misspent" youth here. I must dig them out sometime.