christchurch day 7 – birthday science

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our last full day on holiday was esther’s birthday

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she got lots of books (here are a few of them)

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how can esther possibly be 11 ?

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you should savour these photos as she’s going through a camera shy phase at the moment

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after a late breakfast we headed to a hands on science place where the girls got to climb up a climbing wall of science

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and drop down Australasia’s longest drop toilet  vertical slide

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kezia was quite fantastic and both girls spent hours (literally) chucking themselves down it whilst jane and i sat at the bottom on a little seat

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we’re great fans of mirrors and other optical effects

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no one attempted to guess what was doing on here, but it’s actually esther looking through a window at jane.  but the light is organised such to merge their faces.  so it’s an estane, or an jansther perhaps

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here’s a combo of jane and me (half and half left/right)

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and there was some useful light thing which showed you how you can make white light which is handy for my photo course.

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in the evening we headed back in to town for our last supper which was in a lovely place.  here’s my pie and mash.  the mash is balancing on the meat and the pastry is the two wings speared on top.  it was very tasty thanks.

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can you guess why kezia sat here most mornings reading her book ?  i suspect it was to do with the heat pump above her on the wall !

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