this trip's overview

Gran Canaria portion

First Day Back

Man-made Finery

Queen's Life Guard

Covent Garden Markets

London's Transport Museum I

Marks & Spencers

Natural History Museum

Science Museum

High Street Kensington

Bus Karma I

The Strand

Simpsons-in-the-Strand

Tower of London

Science Museum II

Worst Food Ever

Where the shops are

Neal's Yard Dairy

Seven Dials

Bus Karma II

returning home

Saturday 1 February 2003, continued

Here Isaac is guiding Lila around the various steam engines. He runs around (and away) but when we do our two-tone whistle he always answers back. It makes things a bit more sane.

This is a very early computer, one of the first. At right are vacuum tubes, at left is the console.

Lila is really having a good time in The Garden, the basement toddler playspace. It's not as impressive as the rest of the museum, but there are a few things which are of interest to the under-4 set. Here Lila is proud of herself at being able to navigate in and out of the climbing structure (behind her). She'll be ready for the Exploratorium's Tactile Dome in a few years.

Now she looks like a scientist, in her lab smock. This is the water playspace, which delighted both Lila and Isaac for a while. Isaac has moved along to the blocks and bean-bags area.

There are lots of parts of the Science Museum I didn't show here, and even more areas which we never got to visit, and we'll certainly try to return before we go home.

Now we're hungry, all of us, and that's a good sign. We leave the museums behind, bundle up, and head out to High Street Kensington.

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