Old World Wisconsin

~The General Store

Today was the perfect fall day. The skies were blue, the air chilly, and the leaves were about peak for the year in terms of colored foilage. We visited Old World Wisconsin for the first time since living here...and decided quickly it is our new favorite destination. Definitely our favorite daytrip in 3 years. Family be forewarned: we are thinking about getting a membership (for those of you who don't know, we have a way of driving those into the ground...meaning everyone who comes to see us this year, guess where we'll be going? I guess you could suffice it to say we get our money's worth.) In all seriousness, we kept thinking of Nana and Gramps today and how much Gramps would have loved the blacksmith demonstration, the old wagon shop, the churches and so much more. Because school was out today and this is the last weekend of full operation, we had no crowds to deal with and the kids got one on one interaction with the colonial demonstrators. They even have Laura Ingalls Wilder Days to attend next summer--and how fitting as Little House in the Big Woods was in Wisconsin.

~Cole takes a turn at the "shaving horse," making shingles

~see the church in the background..all the buildings are originals from all over WI that they have moved onto the museum premises

~Maddie at the "shaving horse"

~Josiah plays a colonial game with a hoop and stick

~posing in one of the German farms (there were farms from many different ancestries)

~the boys crank up the heat in the blacksmith's fire