I try to combine errands and even field trips. So, on our way home we stopped at Minneopa State Park. The park had hiking, picnicing, and camping. It had two waterfalls, limestone for climbing, restored prairie and an old windmill. We thought the windmill looked like a lighthouse.
is watching my children experience learning, in this case Minnesota history. A dugout is just that, a home made by digging into a hillside. A log hovel had log walls but an earthen roof and was the step between a dugout and a log cabin. The rope bed with the straw tick was surprisingly comfortable. And what a patient nannygoat!
Farmamerica is the Minnesota Agricultural Interpretive Center established by the state legislature in 1978 to tell the story of Minnesota agriculture past, present and future. Our visit was to the 1850's farm site where we saw reenactors from 1730's through the 1850's. There were French fur traders, Native Americans from the Eastern Woodlands and the Prairie, explorers, early settlers and homesteaders. They were making bullets, showing us dress and tipi's, talking about the French and Indian war, shooting~rifle, cannon and mortar, throwing knives and axes, making cording using a lucet, starting a fire, and cooking. We got to explore inside a dugout, log hovel and a log cabin. We stuffed a straw tick and made a rope bed. We got to milk a goat. 
Even if it is chocolate pudding? Some did make it into his mouth. And yes, he did like it. 
Before we picked up the pheasant chicks we had to move the laying hens into the chicken coop. They are seperated from "Dinner" so they don't pick on them. The boys made their roost from an old ladder. They still have about 10 weeks until they begin to lay eggs. 
Exchange Brother is a Boy Scout in Switzerland. He joined the boys and Daddy at their scout meeting to plan this weekends camping trip. While he was there he shared what scouting is like in Switzerland. 
