The "necessary" at Mount Vernon. My mom kept asking why Washington would make an outhouse so cute!!! with all of the scroll work and the brick and everything, they are kinda cute.... :)
Caleb and Melody and the side of Mount Vernon. George Washington wanted to use stone to build his house, but it was too expensive so he had the construction people cut wood into blocks like stone, mix sand with the paint, and layer the sand/paint mixture thickly, creating the illusion of stone. Genius, huh?
I'm not sure what building this is. As mom puts it, I was too "boring" to walk an extra 100 ft to see it up close. I could already see it from where I was. I think it is servants quarters, but don't quote me on that. Then again,who would quote me?
Washington's 16 sided barn. It was a cool design for a threshing barn. He would put wheat on the floor, send horses across the floor, the wheat kernels would fall into the basement, and his slaves would gather them up. I am so glad that horse hooves haven't touched the wheat that I eat. Instead, there are a whole bunch of chemicals.
St. Louis Arch. We got to see it as we were driving by. It was so cool!!! I have a funny story about this arch. I will tell it to you in person if you want to hear it though, its kinda long.
The Community of Christ's conference center. As you can tell we are not big fans of its modern architecture. ;)
Liberty Jail was really neat and well worth the trip if you ever go out there. You can see a replica of the jail and listen to some recordings of Joseph Smith quotes. It is really a neat spiritual experience.
Dad, Caleb, and Hyrum walking down to see the jail.
Liberty Jail
Car picture. See my annoyed face in the background? This was when everyone was supposedly behaving. Note the supposedly.
Elsa and Caleb looking for secret passageways in Washington's garden at Mount Vernon. Needless to say, they didn't find any.
Cute little lambs!!! They were only a week old!
No comments:
Post a Comment