Since the wedding was on a Friday evening, we packed up on Saturday morning and headed for home from all of our adventures. But we had to make one stop first...the LAURA INGALLS WILDER HOME AND MUSEUM in Mansfield, MO.
We have been reading the picture books and have the set of chapter books at our house. Brynn and I read before nap and Ryan or I always read with her before bed, so about two or three months ago we decided to try the first Laura Ingalls Book. She LOVED it. We've really enjoyed reading a chapter at night with her! Now she likes the TV show too, so we've been all about Laura Ingalls at our house. When we realized that her home/tour was RIGHT on the way home from Springfield, we decided to give it a visit. We spent the whole morning there and the girls (and Ryan and I!) were in heaven...it was so cool!
The front of Laura and Almanzo's farmhouse. It was amazing how tiny all the little rooms were...they have a lot of different rooms, but they were all so small. I feel like people were so little and petite back then or something...and in this house their bedroom had two little twin beds that they slept in! Interesting...
A guide takes you on a tour of the farmhouse, and then you can walk through yourself in their "rock house"...which their daughter built for them (also on their 200 acre property). It was much "bigger" and "fancier" than the farmhouse. But after they lived in it for like 7 years, they spent the last few years of their life and moved back into their farmhouse because they liked it better!
We weren't allowed to take pictures in their farmhouse (and there was a guide watching) but I couldn't help sneak a few pics of the Rockhouse.
We came back to the museum (not allowed to take pictures) but it was SO neat...lots of their original stuff, etc. And then of course the girls were loving the museum store. They wanted to get every book and every toy in the place...HA!
I'm really glad we got to spend the morning there...after lunch both girls fell asleep and slept the rest of the way home!
We had an AWESOME trip to Chicago and Bolivar!
There is a reason museums don't want you to take pictures. One is that the flash, especially on phones, breaks down or fades artifacts. If you want these things to be here when your girls and grandchildren are grown, you really should respect the request to not take photos, even non-flash pictures.
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