Our Melbourne Titanic Adventure! Come with us! 

Dear Kristen and Phoebe, what a wonderful treat! Thank you so so much for sharing your experience with us, you both provided a lot on insight with the narration of the tragedy, and I am grateful to have enjoyed your visit through you!

Stunning vlog, thank you both for sharing 😊

Thank you girls. That was very interesting! 😊

Thank you for sharing your special day with us!!! So interesting and those cocktails looked incredible!!!

This is so interesting thank you for sharing.

Loved this episode. Seeing you and Phoebe enjoy your crafts 👌. What an amazing and interesting day you had. ❤

Phoebe would have been a groovy chick in the 70’s. I graduated from high school in 1977 and she would have fit right in. Wonderful vlog.

Here in Pittsburgh several years ago I went to Carnegie Mellon and saw the Titanic. Pretty awesome!

My goodness, that high tea looked amazingly delicious!! Mardi and Dylan went when they were in Melbourne recently and loved the Titanic exhibition, I would have loved to have gone. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks deeply about those kinds of historical events, Phoebe's comments about how relatively recent the sinking was and having the experiences of ordinary people to reflect on is just awe inspiring. I love history! Thanks for sharing ladies, I really enjoyed 💕💕

I’m good at macrame, 70s child 😊

Thanks for taking us along, it’s been in our family lore for years, as my Swedish grandfather emigrated to the US on the very next White Star liner on April 12. The lore part of it is he missed boarding the Titanic because of a woman, and had to change his ticket. While I have seen his name on a ‘before sailing’ manifest, we have no proof, and his ticket was indeed for the next ship. He traveled 3rd class, very poor, and would not have survived.

My dad dug up a mastodon skeleton when he was a young man. It was in the field he was trying to work up, in a kind of a boggy spot. He thought it was part of a stump sticking up, but as he dug, he found that it was an entire mastodon skeleton, except for one femur. The tusks were over 12' long. His family got to keep it in their basement for about a year, and then the owner of the farm it was found on (my dad and his dad had been renting the farm at the time), wanted it back and stored it in his barn. Unfortunately the barn burned to the ground and the skeleton with it. It had been the most complete mastodon skeleton ever found in Canada. The family who had it in their barn had been trying to find a museum to take it. The one in Toronto wasn't equipped with the suitable climate control to take care of it, so they were, I think, talking to the museum in New York to see if they wanted it, when it was lost to the fire. Luckily for us, my cousin had a molar and eye tooth from the mastodon, at school for show and tell, and those were spared. But being a small boy with autism, he gave the eye tooth away to a classmate. He didn't understand that it wasn't the best thing to do. I don't know where it is now, but the molar is in my basement now (about 75 years after being found). I used to teach, and brought the molar around to all the classrooms of the various schools I worked at. The children got to feel it, hold it, and admire the cavity that I pointed out that the mastodon had because he didn't brush his teeth. That always went over well. The tooth is about the size of an average 8 year old's head and weighs about 2 lbs. I asked at the Toronto museum (who now have great climate control), what I should do with the tooth, and they said that it was best off in my damp cool basement, because that was the perfect climate for it, and the fact I had given so many children the opportunity to interact with it was much better than giving it to the museum, because it would likely have just been catalogued and left in a back storage room where no one could see or hold it. I know it's more recent than an actual dinosaur, but it's still pretty cool.

Phoebe, My paternal grandparents were Edwardian babies. My grandfather would have been just shy of 10 (about my youngest daughter's age now) and my nanna would not have been even 18 months old when the actual Titanic tragedy happened. Of course they never talked about it with me and they both passed away before the movie was released. But this is what I found really astounding when I first discovered what the Titanic was all about - I think it was when they first got down there and found the wreckage. I asked my daughter ( my eldest who is 21) about what she thought of the exhibition when she went in year 9 back in 2017. he said they were given the name of a passenger and hers was a second class passenger, a Lady's maid. Just the thought that these names were belonging to actual people who were alive! Pretty surreal. The high tea would have been really fancy indeed. Can you imagine having that everyday? I have seen the DaVinci exhibition which was fantastic but I didn't get to see the Monet exhibition.

I would love to crochet but man I’m hopeless, I sew and quilt and do lots but my brain and crochet hook don’t work haha

Thanks girls! Such an interesting chat! I live in Adelaide so won’t get to experience it myself. Very interesting. 👏🏻😊

Really enjoyed todays vlog. I was at the titanic exhibition myself this week and just loved it. Great footage and I felt like I was going through the experience all over again! The enormity of the disaster, the trauma experienced by people and how survivors moved forward, basically the whole human face of the event is what I gravitate to. And that iceberg hey? Putting my hand on it and feeling the coldness was absolutely eerie and a visceral experience. I remember have a similar response when I moved to the NT and went through the cyclone Tracy exhibition. Again thanks very much and see you next vlog 😎

That was amazing thankyou 😊 my husband and i went to the Van Gogh experience in Brussels last year - highly recommend - we just stumbled across it on our way somewhere else and thought why not. So glad we did 😊

xXX👍👍👍