Back at it

We had to take the last two Saturdays off because I had YW things that I had to do. This week however, we continued our quest to complete our continuously growing list of things(Check out "The List" here: http://whettenwild.blogspot.com/2009/03/list.html) that we want to do here in the Chicago area. This week we went to the Joliet Historical Museum. They have a special "Lincoln Bicentennial" exhibit there that will be gone in a month so we thought we better see it while we had the chance.

The Joliet Museum is located on the the famous Route 66.

This highway was completed in 1933 and goes from Chicago to LA. It goes right through the middle of Plainfield as well. I don't know if it still goes all the way through or not, but if it does, it would be an awesome road trip. We could follow it all the way out to L.A. to visit the Chongs and visit the McPhersons on the way since it also goes through Gallup. It would be quite the drive!

Here the kids are "cruising" route 66.

The Museum is a fun little museum. They have a little "history hunt" for the kids. Garrison and Hailey really enjoyed looking for the items on the hunt inside the museum.

This spot in the museum represents a canal that was dug to join Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River. The reason that it is such a big deal is that it was dug by hand. It's hard to imagine men digging out an area that big with shovels and wheel barrows yet that is exactly how it was done.

This picture is for my dad. Dad, I thought you would get a kick out of this prison that was built by the prisoners for which it would house. I know you are a tough-on-crime kind of guy.

The Lincoln exhibit was kind of small compared to all of the things that we saw last month in Springfield.

A couple of things that I enjoyed seeing was an original newspaper reporting the assassination of President Lincoln,

and an original reward poster for finding his killer.

On the top floor there was an activity and craft room for the kids. They thought this was great.

Garrison was cracking me up because he was incredulous that they would let us use the craft room by ourselves. He kept saying that he thought that for sure there would be some sort of an instructor up in the craft room.

Fun Day! Where are we going next????