Fishbourne Roman Palace

General 

Elliott was mostly good today. He did get a bit sulky towards the end of our day at Fishbourne because he hadn't seen the archaeologist even though he'd had the chance to say hello earlier. However he did get over this fairly quickly and then managed to say hello to the archaeologist on his way out the building anyway.

Activities

After breakfast we set off for a day at Fishbourne Roman Palace with Granny where it was a family fun day and there were lots of activites. While we were there we had ham and cheese toasties for lunch and a shortbread millionaire biscuit for desert.

We started our exploration of the Roman Palace in the exhibition part where there were lots of things to see and do. There was a weaving demonstration and he did some colouring in. He was also dressed as a Roman with a leaf crown and toga by a volunteer: 

Then we had lunch in the cafe there and he also did some running around outside in the field by the cafe. After lunch we found some Roman soldiers and Elliott had a go holding their shields and having his photo taken with them: 

Then we looked at the mosaics that made up the different rooms of the Palace and there was also an archaeologist sat behind a table showing people different artefacts from the site and telling them about archaeology. There was also another skeleton in a grave left in place where it had first been discovered. At the end of the mosaics there was an activity area where Elliott made a Roman lamp out of clay and also made some mosaics using coloured squares. Next we headed to another building where Elliott made some bread the same way that Romans did and also watched some other children having a school lesson from Roman times: 

Then we headed back to the main building with the mosaics again to see the archaeologist only to find he had left his table. Elliott started to get really upset about this. However he managed to calm down quite quickly and then we went to look round the shop. As we were looking around we saw the archaeologist who was on his way out of the building so Granny took Elliott over to say hello and he seemed very pleased. After that we bought a pencil sharpener in the shape of a Roman catapult, a Roman coin and a Roman ring. By the time we'd done all that the Palace was closing and it was time to go. After we got home we watched a different Blue Peter before having chicken nuggest and chips for tea. Then it was bath time and he read about Tribal Britons in his new Roman book. After he'd brushed his teeth I read another chapter of his new Jack Stalwart book to him and then it was time for sleep.