#1898 Saturday 13 October

What a day! 
Since the forecast was for heavy rain ..... and Casey doesn't have a driver's licence at the moment.... I thought that we'd drive up to the Cunderdin museum.   (More about that later.)

On the way home, Kaylia was hit by a bad anxiety attack.  None of the usual fixes worked and she was a mess .... Big time!  When we got home, even a bubble bath didn't help.  ....so I resorted to the "cuddle and croon" method.  Kaylia finally went to sleep shortly before Naomi got home from work at 3 ... and then slept till 5pm!  I'm glad she doesn't have those attacks very often.. it wasn't very nice.

 

Now .... the museum.  This museum is located in the pumping station from the steam powered days of the Goldfields pipeline.  It includes the pumping equipment   .....  to the right you can see Kaylia standing next to one of the pumps.  There were originally three of these.

The steam engine is the dark green part to the right .... and the pump is the light green part behind Kaylia.

plus a lot of old farming memorabilia..

Here Kaylia is standing on a railway carriage.

 

Here she is sitting in a period school desk in what was the school house of the day....  I think she finds it hard to accept that this is school!

I can remember doing duty to fill the inkwells with ink at these desks ..... and using the pen that was dipped into the inkwell to write with.

It's a far cry from the school that Kaylia knows!  [fortunately!!]

... and the museum has a simulation of a house in an earthquake.

 

This structure moves and makes sounds as if an earthquake were actually happening.  It's fairly realistic!