kalamunda history village excursion

joseph's class has been studying "the olden days" in their humanity and social sciences class and as part of it, they get to go on an excursion to the kalamunda history village. today was the day - and guess who was asked to come along?! me, of course.

if you're interested you can read up some more about the museum here (it covers an entire block!) but i can honestly say there was some pretty cool stuff to see, everywhere you looked. i don't know if it is because i'm almost 40, or because i'm from the country maybe? but i recognised all the old items, the old games, knew what everything was used for... i still remember clearly a day we had when i was in primary school, a pioneer day, when we dressed in pioneer clothes, learned to wash clothes with a wash board, make bubbles from actual soap, ate kangaroo stew (random haha) and it was so fun! i love that my kids are getting to do the same things.

this full size train was definitely the highlight, it's smack bang in the middle of the block next to it's own mini station and all the kids loved it. totally reminded me of the hogwarts express.

joseph and our little group on board!

we had to do our own little self guided tour which was kind of lame, so it's lucky i knew about slates and ink wells and all of that kind of thing from my parents. one of dad's favourite stories is about how they used to dip the girls braids in the ink wells when they would sit in front of them.

in front of the old kalamunda state school

on board the old truck in the main garage

and in front of the vintage fire truck

blowing bubbles on a break

and the token original gas pump photo for my dad. he loves this kind of thing. any old mechanical stuff? he's keen.

our little gang again

joseph and his bestie cruz posing with the vintage clothes board

this was a sneak peek inside a general store. all old bottles, products, scales and cash register set up, makes a startling change from the stores we see today!

then rubbings, where you use a textured item below paper and rub across the top with pencil or crayon. they had pieces of pressed pin, old pennies, lots of cool stuff.

we ate lunch at the train station, explored each of the building thoroughly and then headed back to school on the bus. as ice cube once said: today was a good day.