Last Saturday's Outing
Sep. 9th, 2010 01:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deirdreLast Saturday, we went out with my friend Nicholas (yes, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ethernautrix, that one) and his daughter in his little green Fiat.
We went to Cumulus for lunch and had some fun (and some odd) dishes, all of which were very tasty.
We then went to the Melbourne museum, where his daughter wanted to see (wait for it) dinosaurs! So we did. (I'm always up for dinosaurs!) Lots of interesting stuff there, and the taxidermy room was incredible. I was a bit sad about the Tasmanian Tiger, though it was an old specimen. (They are now extinct, and weren't actual tigers, but marsupials.)
From the Wikipedia entry about them:
ethernautrix, that one) and his daughter in his little green Fiat.We went to Cumulus for lunch and had some fun (and some odd) dishes, all of which were very tasty.
We then went to the Melbourne museum, where his daughter wanted to see (wait for it) dinosaurs! So we did. (I'm always up for dinosaurs!) Lots of interesting stuff there, and the taxidermy room was incredible. I was a bit sad about the Tasmanian Tiger, though it was an old specimen. (They are now extinct, and weren't actual tigers, but marsupials.)
From the Wikipedia entry about them:
The thylacine was one of only two marsupials to have a pouch in both sexes (the other being the water opossum). The male thylacine had a pouch that acted as a protective sheath, covering the male's external reproductive organs while he ran through thick brush.That sounds eminently sensible to me.