Thursday, June 16, 2011

A "FREE" Day

A few families from our Indiana history class met at the History Center downtown this afternoon and enjoyed FREE admission. Stepping back in time, each one found an article of clothing or a tool from the past.
Locked in the dungeon. This is the holding/booking area of the original jail.

Toys and musical instruments from the Civil War era. For fun, I allowed the girls to have a brief "cram session" to study the different patterns of an Underground Railroad "communication" quilt and then gave them a quiz.....they passed with flying colors!

From the History Center, we went to the zoo.....again, for FREE! Watching the red panda sleep.

The female orangutan in the Indonesian Rain Forest. So fun to watch.

Picture-perfect lemurs. The amazing thing is that the lemur in front has a 4-day old baby attached to the front of her. I guess the other lemurs were there for extra protection!

Entering the African Journey.

Walking past a concession stand, the clerk called us over and handed each of us a bag of FREE popcorn. If we hadn't taken it, the garbage can would've!

Down on the farm, I couldn't believe Mr. Peacock allowed us to get this close to him....close enough to "freely" feel all his different types of feathers.



After the zoo, we went next door and enjoyed a FREE concert put on by Star 88.3!


The girls joined Miss Indiana down in front of the stage.

The artists for the evening....Jonny Diaz.....

and Kerrie Roberts.....

What a great day....complete with all this FREE entertainment!



~Wee