Monday, February 26, 2007
Tuesday 9th January
We discovered there was a space museum in Toulouse boasting a full-scale model of an Ariane space rocket. This had to be a must. So we drove 1 and half hours to find that it was closed for the month of January for refurbishment – blooming typical, even more annoying was that if we had come a day earlier we would have been able to get in. However, I forgot we had a barefaced Johnny with us. The gates were conveniently left open, so instead of turning around and returning to the car glum faced we stole into the grounds to have a good old gawk at this huge space rocket. The boys were thrilled. We also got to see some satellites, a space station, a large-scale model of the universe and other exciting things. Despite expecting to be thrown out by some overbearing gun toting security guard, we were completely left alone. Obviously we could not go into any of the exhibitions or play on the interactive whats-its but it was enough for the boys and it was free!
