Our Day at Cowtown!

We saw a lot of cool things from long ago.

We got to sit in a one room school house.

The teacher gave us a short spelling test while some older kids on the other side of the room worked multiplication problems.

This was one of the reenactors who told
 us about how life was long ago.

We learned about the Munger house, which was the
 first home built in Wichita, Kansas.

In the seamstress shop we learned about
how they made women's clothes.

She also told us about some of the things men would wear.

We also learned how ladies kept their fancy hats on their  heads.

We spent a  little time in jail. Mrs. Lazar thought about
leaving us their but decided she'd miss us too  much.

Unfortunately one of Mrs. Lazar's favorite exhibits, the blacksmith's shop, was closed this year .

We stopped at the drug store and smelled some
of the plants they used to make medicine.

At one exhibit we learned about shoo fly pie and different types of grain.

Out on the farm we got to lift hay bales in the barn.

Everyone took turns scrubbing rags on a wash board.

Then we hung them up.

In the kitchen we kneaded bread dough.

We tried out some out door toys.

We learned how they make molasses.

We even got to taste some.

We tried out the covered wagon.

The stage coach was fancier than the wagon.

We ate lunch in the center of Cowtown.

They had a man dressed like Uncle Sam who was funny.

We took our picture with the Wind Wagon that they use in the River Festival Parade.

We talked to a buffalo hunter and touched the buffalo hide.

Then we headed back home.

Some of us were very tired and used the ride home to nap.

Thank you Mrs. Mills for all your help.