. Friday Feb 5, 2010 – Riverton

Charles has gone off to play golf. The course here is $10 for 9 or 18 holes.

In the afternoon we went to see the Museum. It was wonderful. Two farmers wanted to make a museum in town. They set about to raise the money and bring it to the public. It starts out in a theatre that is like aboard an old wooden ship. The movie tells the story of the arrival of Europeans to NZ. The rest of the exhibits were 3 dimensional as much as possible. There were video screens around with scenes of flora & fauna, seascapes of the area. It was so well done. It is not a big museum so it was easy to get around. At the end they had people of the area talking about their experiences. One elderly lady told a story of knitting a scarf for a soldier in WWII. The scarf was sent off to somewhere in Egypt. When it got there the troops had moved on. The packages were then sent to Europe where they were toss out of a train to soldiers beside the tracks. It turn out the soldier that got hers was her brother. There were lots of stories from the old timers. What a wonderful thing to have for posterity.