More Museum Madness

This week has largely been taken up with the museum project and finding resources, pictures etc for it.

On Thursday we went to Jolly Harbour via Fig Tree Drive which goes through the Antiguan rainforest – quite tame compared to our previous experiences. On the way we managed to get a perfect picture of a beach showing the various sections – dunes, middle and upper beach – required for Alex’s topic. We managed to get some mediocre pictures of mangrove trees for Jamie’s but nothing we were happy with. However, on the way into English Harbour where we’ve been staying all week (dah!), we saw some perfect examples so Jamie and Chris went off in the dinghy to snap them.

Friday was exhausting. We spent the whole day in the workshop of the museum preparing the displays, cleaning the drawers, printing, laminating, sticking and arranging. It was very satisfying at the end to take pictures of the kids’ work and feel we’d contributed something to such a world famous site.

This week Jamie has become so proficient at driving and docking the dinghy that she is now allowed out in the harbour on her own. She drove us over to a restaurant last night and as we docked we saw the most enormous fish in the torch light. We eventually decided it was a tarpon, and as we were tracking its progress, we woke up a sting ray – so beautiful.

Congrats to the kids – they worked well in quite difficult hot and stuffy conditions. We really pulled together as a family and it was just like the old days when Chris and I did museum exhibits for a living!!