First up the weather. Today started at 27c reached highs of 37c and ended around 27c. For us brits that is silly season weather and therefore not the weather to do much in.
It is now Monday and Perth is alive with commuters and workers but many shops etc.. still do not open on Mondays. We had a late breakfast at Dome - which is around the corner from our hotel. Then we decided to spend time in the WA museum for 3 reasons: it looked an interesting place; it had aircon; there was the Wonderland exhibition that we had missed at London’s V&A museum.
The museum was 15mins away and even that was a struggle and we kept to the shade. However, once inside, wow. We started with the Wonderland exhibition. You first enter a room and are presented with a special map. This map can be used to interact with some of the exhibits. There are kids versions and adult versions. Then we opened our first door that led us to the hallway of doors, 3 doors to choose from.
Two led to the hallway of mirrors and the other led pass the mirrors to the pool of tears. An exhibition on early Alice films and sketches from them. Plus four costumes (The Queen, King and knaves of hearts). There were lots of doors of all shapes and sizes plus tall chairs with an out of reach key. It was all very well done.
Next was the Mad hatters tea party. This was the main attraction in the tour and it was a room with lights and laser projection images onto walls and surfaces. We sat on some chairs in front of a table laid for afternoon tea with plain crockery. Then the show began and we saw the crockery change colour, have food added and the wall screens around us changed scenes too. It was amazing.
In the books there is a part where all the cards are painting the white roses red (and vice versa we think). We were encouraged to summon our inner child to decorate our map and upload it, with our face, so we became one of the cards. It was fairly strange seeing loads of adults with scissors and pritstick but to be fair a lot of the exhibition is quite dark and scary so would not recommend it for the under 7s.
Finally, we explored rest of the exhibits going right up to the latest Alice in Wonderland with Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. A great exhibition and we are glad to see it and would recommend it.
Final pic.
Next up was the actual museum. Now you could walk around this like a normal human being or you could, like Pam, tackle it as a codebreaker.
The codebreaker challenge is aimed at anyone 8 and above and is similar to the Exit games that we have done, at home, as a family. Using to tools supplied, QR codes are her brain, Pam was navigated around the museum solving clues. Mark meanwhile wandered behind her, dozed and looked at various exhibits. The downside of this is that we were very bad bloggers and took photos of nothing as were too focussed on solving the clues. You will need to go online for pictures of the museum. Our bad as they say.
So after many cool hours in the museum we had planned to visit a vintage clothes shop (closed on Mondays) and a nostalgia toy and game museum (had just moved miles away and was closed on Mondays anyway). So instead we grabbed some dim sum for lunch and headed back to our hotel and promptly napped for 2 hours.
Our evening was spent preparing paperwork for boarding the ship tomorrow and rearranging our cases plus going out to the local Elizabeth Quay area for dinner. The area was not that busy and we managed to get a table at the Island restaurant where Pam had a nice steak and Mark had Chicken Parmigiana.
Then we strolled back to the hotel in 27c heat so naturally had ice cream on the way. We cranked up the aircon in the hotel and admitted that Perth had beaten us. The heat of the city, the way it is laid out with sprawling suburbs and, most of all, the exhaustion of the last few weeks meant that we really did not see Perth so cannot give it a fair review. What we did see though we enjoyed.
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