Sunday, March 8, 2009

The Australian War Memorial

We paid a trip to the Australian War Memorial on Saturday. It's a pretty impressive building which forms an integral part of Burley-Griffith's master-plan of Canberra.
They've got a really good and informative museum there. Australian's war history is obviously all fairly recent, and as such is un-burdened by not really having to go much further back in time than the Boer war - so no need to squeeze in that list of Henry VIII's victories, or even having to mention Napoleon.

There's also a really good kids' section, where you can pretend to be on a submarine or fly a helicopter whilst a projected screen of choppers fly in front of you. Audrey loves this - she's been there twice and it's been a real favourite of hers... perhaps she's got ambitions to be a pilot? I enjoyed co-piloting the helicopter with her, whilst imagining myself on the opening credits of M*A*S*H

TC eat your heart out

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