I think his wife was impressed..

[glacier_kitty]

Today we went back to Watertown and went to the Octagon House..it was pretty interesting. This guy wanted to build a house to impress his wife and there was a contest going on to see who could build the nicest house so he built that house (it was built in 1854). He had 8 kids and he was REALLY smart with designing the house..he was able to have heat, air conditioning, and heated running water. Woww. I have pics so I shall explain more with them

Guess what..grandpa and Stephanie are coming to Alaska next month! Stephanie is going with us on the RV trip with Aunt Cindy! Aw how cool is that? Grandpa hasn't flown in like 20 or 30 some years (he has an RV). Woww haha. He was like "we have to take our SHOES off??" :P



Our tour guide

The music room
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Cool mirror (four Red Hat Society people came on the tour with us haha)

Sorry some of these will be dark..I tried to use the flash but that made it worse



Old woodstove

One of the kid's rooms. He was crippled so his room had to be on the bottom floor





The guy's books. I so wanted to get my hands on those








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The windows were that size so he could evade taxes by making them into doors haha (how they got furniture in too)







One of the daughter's actual shoes. Ow

Old Watertown (yeah I admit I took these cause of the river :P)







The guy who painted this had no arms so he painted with his MOUTH. DUDE





*shudders*







The first kindergarten in the United States



Awww Maggie :D
Awww Maggie :D

Comments

[mbif.livejournal.com]

The staircase and old woodstove are so cool!!! But omfg ow at both the shoes and the dental tools. No thanks!

[foxydanish.livejournal.com]

That house looks awesome! I love historical places like that. Those dental tools are REALLY scary...OMG my mouth hurts just looking at them. :(

That's so cool that Stephanie and your grandpa are coming to visit next month!! I bet that will be awesome. :)

And AWW at the pic of you and Maggie! Heehee.