Museum Festival

I think we redeemed ourselves with Yasmin and Roya today. They were pretty tired of “sight-seeing” in various cities. We almost had a rebellion when they were forced away from their Barbies and were told that we were going out again, and worse yet we were going to another dreadful museum. But... we had an awesome afternoon. It was a Museums Festival and they had all sorts of tents setup by various museums from Hungary.

Each tent had a history or cultural related display and many of them had a craft. The kids made a doll, and then a crown. We watched someone doing pottery. They decorated cookies, and ate them too. They did rubbings of a stone engraved with five hundred year old graffiti. They wrote using an ink bottle and quill. They dressed up. They coloured pictures of eggs after seeing real eggs being decorated using wax. They also painted Hungarian chillies and flowers.

We had intended to stay for only a couple of hours, but we were there all afternoon. The girls had such fun that they were even willing to let us go inside the museum and check out the history within.

By the end of the day the girls were delighted with all their creations and they hardly wanted to leave. Who knew that the Museums Festival could be so much fun!

CM