- I was going to make this a blog entry but I think it fits well here too.

Today I found myself with little on my to do list. So I decided to take the girls out to a place my wife and I visited briefly during one of our adventures many moons ago. The Stuhr Museum in Grand Island, Nebraska.

The Stuhr is an "Explorit" center where one can actually see things first hand as they were two hundred or so years ago. What really attracts me to the place are the very authentic tipi and the earth lodge. Here are some pics:

Iris gets a kick out of this stuff. Inside it's empty. So we imagined what we would put in it. Iris said she would but here toys in certain places and cut some windows out. When I asked her were the fire would go she knew it would go in the middle and the smoke would rise through the top.

Next was the Earth lodge.

Sorry the inside pic is blurry. I think the mesh between the camera and the inside messed with the camera.

Iris is kind of timid with going into holes in the ground and stuff. She really didn't want to hang around. I think the fence keeping us out didn't help much either.

When my wife and I were here before, The gate was open and someone was giving a tour inside. So we got to sit on the beds along the walls and listen to what all of the different parts did and meant to the Pawnee.

While we were walking around we passed these abandoned railroad tracks. I love seeing things like this. I look forward to seeing more abandoned town, farms, airports, etc.

It was a good day. We were outside. Learning and talking. A lady asked Iris if she wanted to live in that time. Iris shyly shook her head no. When I asked her on the way home why she said no. She said "It didn't seem like much fun." Kind of reminds of the whole "a revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having" line.

Take Care,

Adam Hintz