same as yesterday, although this time Jonathan knew what he was hearing when we came out of the stairwell. He ran straight to the World Stage to see what was happening. Singers today which weren't as exciting as the dancers (for a 3 year old) so we went for a walk outside to see if we could go through the Zoom tent before Instant Orchestra. There were lots of people, so we decided to give that a miss. We then went to wait for our workshop via the coffee shop. Great coffee by the way...Instant Orchestra started off well, we ate some apple while we waited for eve
ryone to get seated and then we sang a song about Pirates that had actions. This was a huge hit with Jonathan! Anytime he can jump around and make lots of noise is a good day. Then the Angklung's came out. There were lots and lots of all different sizes. We received instruction on how to use our instruments and we began to play. He liked it for about 5 minutes and then he started to get bored and then the asking to go home began. Apparently there is only so much shaking of a bamboo instrument that one little boy can do before he looks for something more interesting. I think we were there for about 40 mins, so we didn't leave much before the end, but 
we did leave before the end, so unfortunately it wasn't the hit I had hoped. Straight afterwards he asked when he could go see Grug again so I think that says it all about what his favourite ticketed event has been thus far. Really, I should have looked at the photo (left) and I probably could have guessed that he wasn't going to see it through to the end. The Angklung is no drum, nor does it make lots of different sounds, so maybe he's a tougher audience than I thought.Today ended up being more about what was happening outside the box, ak
a the free activities. We saw the Zoom tent next to Amococo yesterday, so went back there to see if we could paint something. And we did, although not for very long. Jonathan is no budding Picasso, although he did love all the textures on the pictures of the animals, as you can see from the picture below where he is touching the feathers. Although some of the photos had no heads or textures attached which was no doubt due to all the little hands that had been through, but he loved what he could touch and we talked about the animals and what they felt like which was nice.
The big hit for day 2 was still in the Zoom tent with an offer of pens to draw on the paper stuck to the wall. He may be no Picasso, but he could be an architect (no pressure Jonny, you can be whatever you like). Jonathan then commenced drawing a big blue scribble, which apparently was Amococo (see picture below with big blue scribble in the bottom right corner).
He was explaining how he was drawing all the different ways you could go which actually made sense as I was watching him draw it. Then he went and got a black pen and drew the s
cribbles in the left of the picture going up into the orange drawing (which was already there). When asked what he was drawing now, he explained he was drawing us some steps so we could get to Amococo. Then of course he asked if we could go to Amococo again, and he was most disappointed that I said we would have to wait until Sunday when the whole family can enjoy it. We then were overrun by a school group, so left them to add their touches to the drawing.
I have added in a picture of the snail person, because Jonathan is quite enthralled by
it. We saw it yesterday as well and I'm sure he will love it when I show him the blog and the snail man is there. There's so much to see outside, there were some performers near the line for Amococo (much bigger line today, so word is getting around about how good it is obviously!).
One of the street performers we really enjoyed were the Party Hat People. Not sure if this is what they are really called, but they walk around in a line wearing party hats and then they stop and do a dance. Reminded me a bit of of the video clip for Fat Boy Slim's song Praise You.
Unfortunately I could not get Jonathan to do his video today. I had a couple of attempts but he was uninterested, so my video today will actually be from yesterday. Since he loves Amococo so much, I'll post the video I took inside Amococo. I did tell him to run around, which you are not supposed to do inside, so kids, don't try this at Amococo!
He was explaining how he was drawing all the different ways you could go which actually made sense as I was watching him draw it. Then he went and got a black pen and drew the s
cribbles in the left of the picture going up into the orange drawing (which was already there). When asked what he was drawing now, he explained he was drawing us some steps so we could get to Amococo. Then of course he asked if we could go to Amococo again, and he was most disappointed that I said we would have to wait until Sunday when the whole family can enjoy it. We then were overrun by a school group, so left them to add their touches to the drawing.I have added in a picture of the snail person, because Jonathan is quite enthralled by
it. We saw it yesterday as well and I'm sure he will love it when I show him the blog and the snail man is there. There's so much to see outside, there were some performers near the line for Amococo (much bigger line today, so word is getting around about how good it is obviously!).One of the street performers we really enjoyed were the Party Hat People. Not sure if this is what they are really called, but they walk around in a line wearing party hats and then they stop and do a dance. Reminded me a bit of of the video clip for Fat Boy Slim's song Praise You.
Unfortunately I could not get Jonathan to do his video today. I had a couple of attempts but he was uninterested, so my video today will actually be from yesterday. Since he loves Amococo so much, I'll post the video I took inside Amococo. I did tell him to run around, which you are not supposed to do inside, so kids, don't try this at Amococo!
Tomorrow is Emily's first day and she is excited to finally get her turn. Mr McGee and the Biting Flea here we come...
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