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Showing posts with label History Center. Show all posts

12/12/11

St Paul History Theater & Minnesota History Center

We had a fantastic field trip last week to St Paul with fellow homeschoolers. The girls had their first ride on a charter bus.

They dashed directly to the back.

You know you are on a bus with a bunch of homeschoolers when someone brings along a horse tooth.

St Paul


 First stop was the history theater where we saw the musical, "A Civil War Christmas." It was fantastic!
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Some members of our home school group

balcony seats!
back to the bus.
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Next stop, the history center.

First stop was the cafe a for a bit of lunch. I had this roasted veggie sammie with a goat cheese aioli.

Young Gracie.

A Huey!

Gotta say, I LOVED the new 1968 exhibit!

Soda Fountain

Always have to make some bullets!

In line for the WW2 plane simulator

After we survived the tornado simulation

Good thing we were in the basement!

Checking out the capitol

This exhibit is nice...it is a house, with stories of all the families that lived there during a span of over 100 years.

Grinding some sausage in the kitchen.

In the backyard dropping clothespins in a bucket.

The bed collapses when someone sits on it!

Going Greyhound

The girls did really well on this Minnesota quiz!!!!

Heading home

Sunset

3/26/11

Home School Day Minnesota History Center

The blizzard of March 23 and we have a 75 mile drive to St Paul. Highway 61

After we saw the snowplow in the ditch, things got a bit more hectic! Very slow going on unplowed roads!
and lots of cars in the ditch!
This is a 65 MPH zone!

We HAD to stop for a break and some munchies
back on the road, closer to the metro
White knuckles!
ramp for 94
ugh! 94 had an egg truck jackknife!!!
finally in St Paul
the barely visible capitol
We made it! Only 2.75 hours!!!!

mad dash


It sure is Minnesota!!!
We were very late for our class, but thankfully the next one had a lot of cancellations!
Grain Elevator
Supreme Court Justices

Learning about W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T Washington.




They loved the soda fountain




In the basement waiting for the tornado to strike!













Heading out...no more snow!
History Center

We saw lots of cars in the ditch on the way home, but at least we could see!!!
Always stop at the Dairy Store on our way through Hastings
for malts and cheese!

Much prettier on the way home than on the way up!!!!