Some of our reading:
We started off by visiting a local Pioneer Museum.
Looking through the antique viewfinder:
Her view:
Jia told me she wished she lived long ago when people wore fancy clothing.
We also visited the Gibbs Museum of Pioneer and Dakotah Life. The story of Jane Gibbs is a fascinating one and too lengthy to reiterate. We bought a book about her and loved reading it. We found it especially interesting that she lived (with the missionary family who kidnapped her, and the Dakota family who became more her own) at the lake right by our house! She eventually married and settled on the farm that we visited.
The prairie was gorgeous!
In front of the sod house:
Learning what school was like back then:
In front of Jane's custom rocking bench, she could sit and work on one side and safely rock a baby on the other!
A Dakota tribe annually shared the land there:
One of our American crafts - a corn husk angel doll!
We also attended a Twins game. The girls were each given a free bat!(This was the best family picture we got.)
Our view:
We lasted an impressive few innings given that the heat index was a sweltering 109 degrees and we were sitting in the sun. The menu included take-away sundaes:
Killebrew root beers:
And lots of cool mists!
A jam-packed week!
1 comment:
Oh my!! I don't know if I could stand your weather and how it can be freezing cold temperatures and then sweltering heat. But your girls are troopers and they make the best of all weather conditions.
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