I wore My UV Patch for a full two weeks, but it was starting to lift by about 1mm around the edges so I decided to remove it tonight.  The main reason I kept it on for so long was my hope to really test it out. But as per Murphy's Law, of the 14 days I had this on, I had three day's of sunshine.  It really has been a very wet start to Autumn this year on the east coast of Australia.

The first day I had it one was the Canberra day long weekend, and the weather was pretty perfect. In fact we still jumped in the pool and had an afternoon swim.

You can see on this next photo that two of the squares on the UV Patch change to a purple colour in the sun.




This photo shows the patch indoors on the left and in the sun on the right.


Here are a couple of screen shots from the mobile app.  You create a personal profile on the app which is based on answering some questions about your skin type and how likely you are to burn in the sun.


So would I buy one of these patches, probably not after doing this trial, but I believe the patches will come for free with the purchase of the La Roche-Posay sunscreen (at least I read that somewhere).  Did the patch make me more aware of my exposure to the sun, absolutely!

Here are some other pictures we took from the night we visited.  This is the National Science and Technology Centre.  That building is four stories tall.


Here is the national portriat gallery. This one was very fun this year, where you could get your photo taken and then is would move along the wall on an animated slide show with gears and sound effects to add to the whole experience.  Both my kids had their photo taken, can you guess which ones they are?


This exhibit was called the Cloud and it was made with recycled round incandescent light bulbs. On the inside was hundreds of lights that could all be turned on and off by the strings that look like rain hanging below the cloud. Very interactive and my kids have never had so much fun turning lights on and off.