Day 1.198: From Galilee to Bethlehem

We woke this morning to rain - and the threat of much more, the weather forecast read something like - showers and risk of thunderstorms until 9 am, scattered thunderstorms from 11 am until 1 pm, then thunderstorms. We decided that the beach might not be the best plan. So, we headed North to visit the EcoTarium - rapidly researched before breakfast and chosen for its indoor/outdoor nature and location. It's a mixture of zoo and science museum and park and planetarium (and several other things probably). It was hard to find a representative picture, so instead - I chose one with everyone (except me) in it.

As you can see - the kids had caught the sand-play bug yesterday.

We spent the whole day expecting the storms to arrive at any minute. They arrived during one of the minutes I spent changing E5N1's diaper. We were already preparing to leave to start our journey home. We ended up running to the car as the rain started and the black clouds gathered.

Soon we were engulfed.

However, we made it home safely and thankfully not much of the journey was spent peering through weather like this.

There is a magical quality to these one-night getaways, we feel like we've had a holiday, and been away for ages, we've taken 250 pictures (although many of them are rubbish of course) and we were only away from home for just over 36 hours. Excellent.