Sleepover and Duxford!

On Friday, Tilly came for a 6 night sleepover! It was originally going to be a 3 night, but we were having so much fun we convinced Tilly's mother to let us stay! We had a great time, and we did a bit of work as well! We filled in quizzes and read a bit about Valentine's Day, made some rose scented bath bombs and we went to Duxford Air  Museum on Monday. We brought Tilly home again after Duxford, for an extra 3 nights! We did really cool experiments with Milk and Soap and we even experimented with Skittles! I'll write about them later though.

Finger of Four

 At Duxford, we saw most of the stuff that we didn't see last time. We had a look around the Battle Of Britain area, which was really cool! I was especially interested with the battle tactics between the Luftwaffe (German) and the RAF (Britain). The Luftwaffe had better tactics than us at the beginning, but the RAF copied them and invented the Finger Four. It's called that because it's the shape of a hand!

Playing a game with a very tricky Dice!

Lieutenant Shovlin!

It was so cold, running warmed us up!

We also boarded the De Havilland Comet 4. It was the very first jet plane to cross the Atlantic with passengers! In the time when the Comet 4 flew, most parents worked abroad and had to leave their children behind at boarding school. Every school holiday, all of the school children would board the plane and fly to the country where their parents worked. The only adults on the plane would be the pilots and the crew! That would be a bit noisy! This was called the Lollipop Flight.
 Me, Tilly, Alex, Beth and Cat were all Baggage Handlers, and we had a few special missions!  First, we had to investigate a suspicious suitcase, and we had to answer questions like who it belonged to. After we found the suspicious bag, we had to find the area where you put the luggage underneath the plane. It was quite difficult, but I eventually found it! I was so proud, because everyone was doubting me, so I asked the supervisor who was watching us, and he said I was right!

We also saw the Control Room at Duxford, where the important people planned where to attack next, or where they were being attacked. There was a giant table with numbers and co-ordinates on it, and it looked very complicated! There was also a script to read, but since there was so many people in it I got a bit confused...
We stayed for a long time in this room because it had a lovely warm radiator, and everywhere else was so cold!

All of the kids had a bit of a lesson in the education room but it was actually really fun. The lesson was about different forms of transportation.
 The man who was talking to us had made loads of Lego vehicles like cars, ambulances, planes, boats, loads!! There was a giant carpet which had roads and rivers on it, and he told us to carefully get a vehicle and place it where you think it would be in the map, also how fast it might go. He also told us to try very hard not to brake any of his Lego! No kids knocked or broke anything.... except Tilly! Apparently, someone pushed her and she tripped on a building. She knocked it over, but it wasn't broken, thankfully! It was so funny!

Naughty Tilly!