day 4

Awake at 4am!!, took all 3 kids out at 6,30am for a bit of an explore, and found an excellent bakers, bought 6 doughnuts, 8 huge croissants and a loaf of bread and took them back, usual fights over the colour of the doughnuts so i chopped them in bits, that shut them up for 2 minutes, then it was fights over number of bits, so distributed them equally, now fights over the existence of god and whether father christmas wears pants or not. I gave up..Today was Aquarium day, so we trooped off to the ferry again and were buying our annual passes by 9.30am.The bet aquarium i've ever been in, and i know my aquariums!, just great.there are some scary looking mothers outthere under water. the shark area was great with one of those tunnels that they swim overhead and a glass floor that they swim underneath, did that for a couple of hours, then went next door to the wildlife centre, included on our passes, again excellent, again 1km of walkways, saw loads of bugs and spent time educating the kids on the spider and snake situation. Had a drink next to a family of kangaroos and koalas, Stroked a snake and sat i the butterfly enclosure while the boys waited for them to land on their hands, Jim never quite grasped the standing still concept and had to settle for 'a butterfly went near my head!' claim to insect fame. meanwhile jack seemed able to shoot a hand out and pluck them out of the air, matrix stylee, until we told him not too. But incredible to watch.Lunch now at the aquarium cafe thing. again excellent food, can you imagine the cafe at the london aquarium, froxen burgers, microchips etc. This as great, fresh salt and pepper squid for me again, lentil burger for jen and chicken goujons for the boys, not a processed bit of food in sight..Got up to go and saw a torrential thunderstorm wtf? big fat heavy lazy hot raindrops, gently exploded on the floor as we went to get the ferry, water a bit choppy but fine. Back home the kids played, jen went to sleep and iwent to get some chicken for dinner which we had with noodles, Kids fell asleep at the table, put them to bed and went to bed my self at 6.30pm on a friday, awake at 3am so got up and am now sitting in dark kitchen tapping away on my little pc, Jim just came past and went for a wee, unfortunately he just shathimself while standing infront of the toilet, gotta go, cleanup in aisle 3.Going to look at houses later....