Hubble bubble - and James entertains the crowds

Our last day in Boston was spent at the children's museum - had read about it online and it lived up to all our expectations. It's not really a museum - more a huge play space where the children experiment and learn as they go, but the kids absolutely loved it and we spent 5 hours there. They climbed a three-storey climbing frame, used 'kid power' to lift themselves off the ground, got wet and bubbly, had golf ball track races, starred in their own Arthur movie, flew a plane, sailed boats, crewed a lifeboat, made music, did Chinese writing, built things in the construction zone, went inside a real Japanese house and made sticky pictures.

We walked home via Faneuil Hall for a spot of shopping (like we had any more room in our cases..) and James helped one of the street entertainers who was really excellent. Every time he got James to hold the spinning ball on his finger, he knocked it off from behind which had all of us hooting with laughter and James trying extra hard to keep his finger straight! There would be a picture of James holding two spinning balls if our camera battery hadn't run out!!

Our flight to Vancouver (via Minneapolis) was at 6am the following morning, so another early start... and charged for two pieces of overweight luggage, but not really surprised and not horrendously expensive either. Wonder if Air Canada will charge us again in Vancouver and Qantas again in Sydney!!

Don't think it has quite sunk in yet that we are not going back to Dunbar - still feels just like being on holiday and I'm not sure when the enormity of emigrating is going to sink in. Probably when we start buying beds in Geelong!!