In June of 2001 Bootsie and Bootsie took a trip across Nebraska to visit their favorite museums. "Why did you go alone?" you may ask. Well, nobody else would go with us. Actually, we could have dragged our men along, but they wouldn't have enjoyed it. And forcing people to go to a museum is not even worth the trouble. Besides, we hadn't had a road trip by ourselves since we saw Davy in Wagner, SD.
Our first stop was Pioneer Village in Minden, Nebraska. The museum features millions of artifacts of pioneer life.
The part I found most interesting was the huge walk-through display of homes beginning with the earliest pioneers and ending in the nineteen-eighties.
They had a fully furnished room for just about every decade. It was fascinating.
It's a good thing I let her out of those things. Come to think of it, I actually haven't seen Bootsie around in quite a while!
Our next stop was Grand Island, Nebraska to visit the Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer.
There we got to see Railroad Town which features historic homes including the house in which Henry Fonda was born.
They even had a large display showing how much it would suck to be a woman in the days of the pioneer.
The employees there all wore period clothing. I'd hate to be the woman who has to spend all day in the sod house. But luckily I'm not.
This church still has services every Sunday.
I have no idea what you call this game, but the object was to hook the round iron thing onto the nail in the tree.
Final score: Bootsie-7 Bootsie-2
All in all it was a swell couple of days. We had alot of fun and learned plenty of new crap to bore our friends with. Bootsie mentioned how cool it would be to live in those days of the pioneer, but I, myself came away with a new appreciation for technology. I could never, ever make it back then. I don't even know how my mom survived raising us kids in the seventies.
So if you're ever travelling through the insanely exciting (that's sarcasm) state of Nebraska and you see a roadside sign for one of these two places, stop and see what all the fuss is about.
You'll be glad you did.
