The Big Day Dowse

On Sunday Rich and I decided to leave Wellington for the day and head out to Lower Hutt for "The Big Day Dowse" which is an annual festival organised by the Dowse Art Gallery.

 When we arrived some artists were putting some tape art up on the side of the gallery - I always love a good bit of tape art.

The festival was pretty fun - we got the check out some bands, a market and circus performers. I especially loved this girl band, I forget their name but they were a lot of fun. I loved their matching fluro sunglasses too.

Whist we were out in Lower Hutt we figured we may check out some of the exhibits at the gallery. I loved this globe. There was a mixing deck near it an your could change what was happening on the surface of the earth by using the mixing deck. It's a really fun interactive exhibit - the kids at the gallery loved playing with it!

I also really liked the "Play" exhibit which was, amongst other things, a display of contemporary design for children. I want to have the frog chair at my house!

I'm not actually sure what exhibition this was part of, but I have to saw I loved this T-Rex with the glowing eyes!

After checking out The Big Day Dowse and spending some time at the art gallery we decided to head down to the Hutt River for a walk. Seeing the river made me realise just how bad our drought is - it looked like a stream compared with the last time I saw it.

I hope you all had a lovely weekend - we have Easter coming up this weekend which means FOUR WHOLE GLORIOUS days off work! My week is already half over - yah!