Springfield Lincoln Museum

Lincoln Museum was the best museum I've ever seen. The exhibits were informative, nice movies, and it helped you imagine what it was like during the time of Lincoln. It was sad that he lost two of his sons. He was hero to the nation. He ended slavery and he could done more if he wasn't assasinated.

There was also a room where you can dress up like the people in Lincolns time and they had toys and people to tell you what it was like then. Lee Shafer spent some time telling me about the way kids lived in the past. There was a section in the room where they had a butter churner, fireplace where you cooked with a big pot, and a bellow to blow air into the fire. Fun!

St Louis Botanic Garden

We went to the St Louis Botanic Garden. I saw tropical plants that had unusual plants with unsual flowers and fruits. There were plants that eat insects, a chocolate tree, and a lot of healing plants inside the big greenhouse. There were also a lot of statues and scuptures around the park. It was beautiful.

Magic House in St Louis, Missouri

A Week at the Burn's

We went to Bow's playground in memory of the Burn's friend's son, Bow, who died in a car accident. He liked dungeon and dragons so they made a playground with a castle, dragons, knights, trolls, monsters and gargoyles. I am on top of a gargoyle looking evil! We stayed at the Burn's for a week in Carbondale, Illinois where my dad grew up. They live in a forest that is called Burns Woods. We saw skunks, tortoises, deers, frogs, fireflies, birds, squirrels, butterflies, mosquitos and other insects. Their house was very big and beautiful. They have a three story house surrounded by trees which was devastated by a storm and some of the big ones fell on the house on Mrs. Burn's room and a deck outside. The road towards the house was littered with huge trees but they cleared it already. I love visiting with Mrs Burns because we had so much fun. I had sleepover in her room and we talked all night about girl stuff like clothes, jewelry, books, a book club, and my friends in New Zealand. We even watched Harry Potter together and covered my eyes when the scarry parts came up.

Sunday in the Park -July 21, 2009

This was at the Museum of Art in Chicago. This is a famous painting called Sunday at the Park by George Seurat who did famous style of painting called Pointellism because of all the dots like pixels in the digital camera. There are several colours in one area but when stand away from it, it looks like one. The woman in purple on the picture was painted by Pierre-August Renoir. His paintings are very dreamlike and the colours so soft. These are some of the pictures I like. There were hundreds that we took but I like these ones. The 1st picture is called the "American Gothic"
and some of the shapes repeat itself like the woman has a oval face like her button on her shirt and also the dress. The man has the pitchfork and the shape is repeated on the shirt, the face and the window on the house.

Millenium Park - Chicago

This sculpture was in a shape of a bean and it was like a big mirror. There was also a water structure that has a big face on it that moved and sometimes spit water at people playing in the water. There was also a big outdoor theater in the middleo if the park and a small botanical area. It was very nice to walk around and see the city and it's buildings.

Harry Potter Exhibition

My mom and I went to the Harry Potter Exhibition before we watched the new movie. I tried the sorting hat on and a replica of Harry's wand and also saw all the things they used on the making of the movie. They had one model of the pixy that they used for the computer to make them move and to make it look that there were a lot of them. They were just made of what looks like plastic. It was like Universal Studios where they make it look real in the movies.

I liked the dining hall and the candles hanging up in the ceiling. They also had the flying car there. The movie was sad because one of the main character died (I won't tell if you are going to watch it). My dad thought it was slow but I thought it was okay. I liked it.