Our one-day adventure was to tag along with TB on his trip to Rock Springs. We stopped in Green River at the Sweetwater County Historical Museum. If you're going to take these kids to a museum, you have to clarify if it's a dinosaur museum, train museum, or something else, because they don't like to be surprised about this kind of thing. The museums on this trip were mostly about mining history, which luckily always includes mining cars on rails and rail yards, and some dinosaur fossils from the mines. Whew!
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| Jovie acted afraid of "mannequins" for the first time ever, so she wouldn't pose in front of the nurse's uniform by herself. She felt safer with her "best play friend" Ikey instead. |
The next stop was at Western Wyoming Community College. They have a walking tour around the main building. The campus is kind of just one classroom building and one dorm. There were dinosaurs, fossils, local history and lots of college kids.
The wildlife museum included 125 stuffed animals. It was kind of an artistic display and the animals were really varied, but it was all collected by one family that was really into hunting, and seemed a little blood-thirsty to me. The pamphlet they handed out made it clear that even if these animals look nice, they can really be awful - hunting each other and stuff like that. They're even spreading the rumor that the taxidermied elephant "killed a German tourist" - just to add insult to injury.
We visited the Rock Springs Historical Museum in the old City Hall and fire station. Historic downtown Rock Springs is pretty interesting - and trains are going by about a block away all the time.
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| Jails are one of our favorite things to see! This one even had a padded room. Jovie told me "There's greasy stuff in the potty." I told her not to get sent to jail. |
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| The Burrows are showing you a Burroughs adding machine. |
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| We're getting more ideas about flapper dresses. |
Last stop for the day was Expedition Island where John Wesley Powell embarked on his travels down the Green River and Colorado River.
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