Fathers’ Day – an early celebration

I remember once hearing something about how there should be a Grandparents’ Day, the way we have Mothers’ Day and Fathers’ Day. At the time I thought that it was just another excuse for companies to market cards and gifts and make profit. Now though, I think that there is something in it. Each year, we straddle the line of wanting to do something just with our immediate family unit (after all, it is Monsieur and SnuggleBub who made us parents) and wanting to celebrate with our parents (after all, they are still our parents and it is still their Mothers’/Fathers’ Day as well).

Our solution has been to have our little, immediate family celebration on a different day and then usually to go to Pt Lonsdale on the day to celebrate with R’s parents – my parents live too far away to day trip it and we prefer to stay two nights at least so don’t usually go up for those particular celebrations.

Anyhoo, today we celebrated R’s Fathers’ Day. The morning always starts with card, present and pancakes for breakfast! Then the activities for the rest of the day is totally the choice of the parent being celebrated. This year, R decided that he wanted to go to Scienceworks and the Planetarium. Scienceworks is a fantastic museum of science and technology; full of interactive exhibits and activities for everyone. 

It was the first time in years that I actually got to walk around the different exhibits. The first few years of going there, Monsieur always wanted to go to the one area and stay there the whole time. 

Both Monsieur and SnuggleBub were captivated by the Planetarium show.The show in the Lightning Room was also fascinating.  We all had a fantastic time today and came away promising ourselves to go there more often.

SnuggleBub wasn’t keen on the last demonstration in the Lightning Room, so we left to enjoy some sun and fresh air outside. Mostly I just played around with my new phone camera settings and  took photos of her after that.