Beethoven's fifth is a famous symphony. Now we have Maxwell's fifth (birthday). I paid a quick visit to Canberra last weekend to celebrate the event and make up for last year when we didn't even turn up to his birthday because we were in Baltimore. Dot, unfortunately, could not come as she was planning to go to Canberra this coming weekend. Of course, I went by air, but managed to get some cheap tickets.
Max chose the venue for his birthday meal - a Sushi Bar!! Do you know any other 5 year old who has selected such a venue? Well, he likes Japanese food and he was attracted by the conveyor belt which sweeps dish past diners at a fair lick. No friends came to the meal because his social party was delayed a week to coincide with the release of a kids' film!
Apart from dining, we did all the usual things like shopping, going to the park and a nursery (to buy plants for Emily's newly designed and implemented garden, and - best of all - a visit to CSIRO's Discovery Centre which displays its work. Max got to hold items of fauna (specifically some insects and a turtle), look at skulls through high powered microscopes, put together puzzles, push lots of buttons and wheels, and generally have a great time! He's a very intelligent kid and very inquisitive.
By the way, we gave him a couple of van Gogh starter kits bought back from Amsterdam: artists' paper; water colours; and van Gogh T-shirt to wear when he's painting and that sort of thing. He also recieved a box of Dutch chocolates.
AS
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