Day 7

    On Friday, we spent most of morning around the cabin doing our usual activities.  We decided that we wanted to head back to Buena Vista to do a little more exploring there.  Katy and I were also desperate for a shower, so we wanted to stop by Joey's Dad's house to take one. 

       We had noticed a museum in Buena Vista that looked interesting.  I just love museums and since I teach Colorado history, I love any chance I can get to learn more about our state's past.  The museum was in a very old building that once was the court house.  They then moved the court house and it became the school for many years.  There was a lot of history just in the building.  The museum contained a lot of old things from the past.  It was kind of disorganized, but still really neat to look at all of the old stuff.  They had one room that was devoted to old school things.  They had old typewriters that the kids got to type on.  They really liked that!

    On the top floor, they had a model train set up.  A local train club spent four years building a train replica of the Buena Vista/Salida/Leadville area how it was a hundred years ago.  The tour guide was very knowledgeable and gave us lots of information about the history of the train.  Dawson was of course beside himself to see such a large model train.  Ella kept exclaiming, "I want to go in there!"  We got a kick out of that one!  

    They had a second part of the museum that was out a park nearby.  We had to go to the second part because it was a train museum.  The neatest part was that they had a hundred year old real train caboose.  We got to go inside of it and see what a caboose was like back then.  The only bad part was poor Ella and Dawson were under the impression that they train moved and would take us somewhere.  

    After the museum we headed back to the park so the kids could play and run around a bit.  We got a great game of chase going.  We got pretty hungry, so we headed to a local restaurant for dinner. After dinner, we headed to Joey's Dad's house for a much needed shower!  Boy did that feel good!  We had another great day!!

The boys hanging out

The outside of the museum

Part of the model train

The caboose

The train museum

There was a lot to look at

Checking out a train

This was inside the old caboose.  These wooden benches were actually beds the conductor, engineer, and other train members slept on. 

Where the conductor sat

The side of the caboose. It looks much bigger on the outside than it feels on the inside. 

We couldn't get a picture with all three looking at the camera

Jameson discovered this tunnel that he just loved!

Cutest baby face in the world!

The boys having fun

Time to play chase

They just love to run

They also love to spin

The park is always a fun time!