Although he doesn’t officially start his new job until Monday, Jake had to go into the office for a couple of hours today, so I took the kids into the Big City for a while. A visit to one of the play parks ended in tears very abruptly when Alfie went on a suicide mission at the top of a giant lighthouse and had to be forcibly removed by a very helpful man who stepped in just in time, when some other parents became concerned that my persuasion techniques weren’t achieving the desired results and we were about to have a calamity on our hands. Thank you, whoever you were!
So we played pirates with a telescope, admired all the waterfront sculptures, and ended up at Te Papa Museum where Molly played ‘Tokatoka’ (a traditional Maori game where you compete to see who can stack the most pebbles in a tower) and Alfie spent some quiet time on the computer learning how to say important words in Maori such as “clothes” and “deodorant”. 
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