As you may remember from the Wilmington post, we decided to go to the ‘Hobbies Alive’ festival in Clare. When we arrived we grabbed a sausage sandwich from the local Cub Scouts. After that we headed over to see the people from the Wilmington Toy Museum. Opposite their collection someone was building a road over a mound of dirt with remote-controlled earth moving equipment.
Then someone advised us to go and have a look in a big shed to see some small model cars and trains. In the first room there were lots of model plains and jeeps. In the second room there were lots of scale model trains on a ginormous rail circuit.
We spent lots of time watching them and they even had a tunnel with viewing windows. Next we went outside and I got to drive a mini steam tractor which was awesome.
Then we headed over to a nearby lake and saw a 3 m long submarine. We all thought it was remote-controlled until dad took a zoomed up photo and there turned out to be a man inside driving it!
After we did that, we rode on a small steam train around Melrose Park. We even got to go through a short tunnel. Overall I had a great time.
I have been writing this from the forrest near Dean. The temperature is even perfect, 5 degrees at night and getting up to 30 in the day time. Congratulations to my school classmate Charlie in his swimming events!