I'm famous.... hehehe

Okay, maybe only a celebrity to my family and friends, but hey it's not every day you get your face on national television! Here's the story:

I took Aaron to Sci-Bono on Tuesday for a day of fun and exploring... they are holding a Gadget Factory for the school holidays with a number of workshops everyday.

Well he (semi)built and programmed a robot... got it to go round in a square and then also sense an obstacle and reverse and turn.  this was loads of fun... to the point he now wants one for Christmas (Santa's budget doesn't stretch that far unfortunately!)

We also got to try out a  segway... a scooter type thing that you propel forward or backwards using your centre of gravity

Aaron got to play with playdough and create an electric circuit, and also made a periscope.

While we were wondering around the centre, I noticed a TV crew but didn't think too much of it.  Then at lunchtime we went to the Science Show and they were there.

Aaron was one of the volunteers called upon to try and experiement... blowing a ping pong ball out of a funnel... it's physically impossible by the way!

After the show, the lady asked if she could interview me and Aaron... well of course we willingly said yes!!

Then the excitement built... "we're going to be on tv!" sang Aaron throughout the afternoon and most of the way home.  Well we sat glued to the tv that night to catch the broadcast... and had also posted it on facebook and sms'd or bbm'd all our friends.  The broadcast didn't happen! Aw shucks!

Come Wednesday morning and Aaron screams at the top of his voice and wakes me up to say that "we're going to be on tv!"  He had seen the promo of the story coming up.  Well we sat through another 15 minutes of news, sport and weather and then there was our faces and voices on the screen.  Excitement reigned!!

I got sms and calls as well as facebook posts all day long from friends who had also seen the broadcasts... it seemed that ENCA had repeated the story every hour on the hour for the morning news, from 6am till who knows when.... so lots of people saw it.

If you missed it, well you're in luck.  It's on youtube... and here's the link

So there you have the story and the story behind the story... we had our two seconds of fame!