I have managed to log onto Blogger with my account and not Ken's this time, so hopefully this post will read as mine. Sorry for confusion - I thought my reference to disliking mathematics would have been the give away that I was the author of the Minuteman posting! Ken actually enjoys maths - crazy man!
So another day, another city.
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| Plattesmouth bridge crossing over the Missouri from Nebraska into Iowa |
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The Missouri River
It was serendipity that caused us to happen along the Lewis and Clark Trail Interpretive Centre. Ken has been reading to the children about the explorers' travels each night as we travel, and they were excited to see the signs leading to the Centre an hour into our drive this am. It was a great place with lots of hands on things for the kids to do and experience, which really bought the stories to life that they have been hearing nightly.
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| Replica dugout and riverboat, and the Interpretive Centre - it was in a lovely setting! |
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| Prairie dogs |
Next stop, St Joseph MO, the Glore Psychiatric Museum. Ken relished showing the kids the history of mental illness and its treatment - an interesting counterpoint to the movie 'Brave' last night! (Although Sophia will tell you she sees bears everywhere all the time ...)
Victoria found the museum a little disturbing, particularly the amputation of a solider's leg in the Civil War Medicine Museum (a smaller museum within the larger one); whilst Sophia was fascinated by the assortment of nails, bolts, safety pins, hair clips and other odds and ends surgically removed from the digestive tract of a psychotic patient. Oliver and Benedict just ran around saying, "what's this Mum?" "hey look at that!", and were probably most taken with the wind up brains on feet in the gift shop!
So we are now in the RV park in Independence, MO, part of the greater Kansas City metropolitan area. Tomorrow sees us visiting the home of Harry S Truman, a museum at the US Mint office, and probably a return to the board games shop we discovered on the walk we had this afternoon in the 40deg C heat. Photos below of geek-kids in game shop.
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| Big kid in a candy store |
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| "Mum can you spend your money for me?" |
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| "I really would like this one please!" |
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| More geeks shopping |
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| and again ... it is easy to startle geeks in their natural environment :) |
