Sean's Holiday to Oz (Part 2)

On Day 2 of the trip we were awake early and given a hearty breakfast before being driven over to Sean's Aunty Annette's house. It was raining lightly and wasn't a good day for doing things outdoors but Aunty Annette knew of a good place to go.It was an indoor play centre. Sean liked the big area full of plastic balls and dropped on top first.


However, Bailey was amazing. He didn't just fall on top of the balls. He wiggled until he was half-covered by them. Then, after this picture was taken he kept wiggling until you couldn't see him at all!


Sean also found some other stuff to climb on and he even played nicely with some of the other children. After going away for a few minutes, Sean's Dad asked another parent if Sean was being good and the man said, "He's been very polite, actually." The man seemed to think it was a strange question. And, in fact, Sean is like that almost all of the time. All through the trip he was very well behaved.


One thing that Sean's Dad really liked about the play centre was the way all the kids mixed together while they were playing. Big kids took care of little ones even if they weren't relatives or friends. Plus, Sean was just another kid when placed in the mixture of people from different cultures and places. When he goes out with his Dad in Taipei it's quite different. People will just assume that he can't speak the local language and other children often treat him very differently. The play centre crowd was very international (but I'll bet the children there were all locals) and it was just really nice for Sean and his Dad to be just a part of the crowd.