Thursday, June 29, 2017

Adventures in Kansas - illustrated

So I said I'd have some pictures from my Kansas trip, so here we go.
Giraffes lounge at the Rolling Hills Zoo near Salina.
It's an actual letter from Alexander Hamilton! I know! A letter from Aaron Burr was next to this in the display, and one of Hamilton's jackets was elsewhere in the museum.
I've read "Band of Brothers" by Stephen Ambrose, and here are autographs from all of them. Pretty cool.
It's a very tall rocket at the Cosmosphere. Visitors could walk out underneath it. While I knew it wasn't going to fire, it was still a little nerve-wracking.
Astronauts took lots of pictures while they were in space, and they're amazing.
It's a rock - from the moon!
The Botanica included a lot of statues like this one called Playmates.
It's a day lily called Darth Vader. Awesome!
Cowtown had businesses of all types, including a millinery shop.
The modern world intruded on the old-fashioned one. Crews were doing some work on Cowtown's main street, which damaged the ambience.