day one- wisconsin to springfield, Il We set off at five in the morning on june 23rd. We made our first stop in Springfield, IL. We saw all of the ...
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day one- wisconsin to springfield, Il We set off at five in the morning on june 23rd. We made our first stop in Springfield, IL. We saw all of the Abraham Lincoln related sites. The very new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum was phenomenal! The entire museum is wheel chair accessible, the first of it's kind. There is a neat replica of Lincoln's boyhood home. There is also a "White House" you can explore. You c an take pictures with wax figures like the entire Lincoln family, a childhood Abe, john wilkes booth and more. There is Union theater where they show a 17 minute layered pr...
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Well we survived the plane trip. The kids were OK , they slept a few hours towards the end. The main problem was that they were much more attuned to ...
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Well we survived the plane trip. The kids were OK , they slept a few hours towards the end. The main problem was that they were much more attuned to their biological clock which was telling them that it was afternoon: awake and be active and play time. Soon after boarding Marcel has felt it was LA time, that is the wee hours of the morning. The disconnect between these two caused me a bit of angst: Why won;t you go to sleep. Marcel watched Quantum Solace and Gran Tarismo, while Bek watched the latter and Slumdog Millionaire. The ability to watch and pause which ever movie you wish is fantastic...
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