Field Trip

Brett has all morning and most of the afternoon off on Tuesdays so he can go out and recruit. This works out great for our homeschooling family and shared love of being with "Daddy". On Tuesday (Emma was find, by the way) we did our schoolwork right away in the morning and headed out to Two Harbors, MN with Brett.

The kids and I dropped Brett off at the high school and went in search of something cool to do. We find an old train museum/depot with a locomotive displayed out in front. It was the train that they used to lay the rails that extend from Duluth on up the North Shore. Aidan was fascinated by it and loved looking at all the mechanism and trying to figure out what connected to what, and what made what move, etc. Fun stuff!

We had quite a bit of time left, but a front was coming in, we were right by the shore, and the wind was freezing cold so we drove up to the parking lot for the lighthouse, took this picture (see below), got back in the car and went to pick up Brett.

When we were getting into the car I noticed a sign indicating that touring the lighthouse was not going to break the bank so after we picked Brett up we headed back to the lighthouse and went on a self-guided tour.

Our first stop was the Pilot House from the ship the Frontenac. The ship was shipwrecked in 1979 due to snow and hazardous conditions. The kids had a great time taking turns being the "captain" (well, two liked taking turns...Miss Gigi mainly liked yelling at the other two for infringing upon her space) and checking out all the equipment they used for operating the ship.

This is Aidan pretending to be the captain as he's discovering the ship is about to hit the reef that ended her career.

"Full steam ahead me hearties!"

Exploring the kitchen in the "Assistant Keeper's House"

Trying to prove to Brett that although I don't have much to show for it I do know the general motion one needs to make in order to make a sewing machine work.

The Two Harbors Lighthouse is the oldest continuously operating lighthouse on the North Shore of Lake Superior. The first lighting was in 1892.

Are we doing a good job pretending we aren't freezing? Do you spy the ship coming in behind us (it actually didn't stop at Two Harbors, but continued on to Duluth and was leaving port this morning as we were crossing the bridge coming back from running errands...cool, huh?)