Fort Ouiatenon

pronounced wee-ah-tu-naan
Otherwise known as Feast of the Hunter's Moon, in Lafayette, IN.  From the website: "The Feast of the Hunters' Moon is a re-creation of the annual fall gathering of the French and Native Americans which took place Fort Ouiatenon, a fur-trading outpost in the mid - 1700s. It is held annually in early autumn on the banks of the Wabash River, four miles southwest of West Lafayette, Indiana."

Their website:  http://www.tcha.mus.in.us/feast.htm

Cannon Deomonstrations

 Marching formations

 The Landing of the Voyagers

 Tactical Deomonstraions

 Rebuilt Fort. The original had been burned to the ground during a war.

 Closing ceremonies formations coming in to retire the flags for the year.

 Oh my goodness, this little boy was SSOOOO adorable with his daddy's group!

She was tired... not asleep, but tired.  We left the house at 5:30am since they are an hour ahead of us.

I guess it's high time I put up a couple shots of our trip to D.C. (Sept. 20-28)

Conner Prairie Field Trip with Homeschool Group

(old camera today, hence the poor quality photos)

Wow, what a day!!  Conner Prairie in Fishers, IN (just NW of Indy)

It took 2h20min to get there, and an extra 1/2h to get home due to traffic jams.

I'd classify it as a colonial village.

We started out the day going up (I think 387 feet) in a hot air balloon!! 

It's called the '1859 Balloon Voyage' and is based on actual events in Lafayette, IN at that time.

   

Then we went through the Indian reservation camp, and obviously looked inside some long houses. 

 

A Butterfly landed on Sophie's shoe!!! 

 

Off to candle dipping...

And doing the laundry (the boys carried water buckets from the hand pump)

  

3 cousins, aren't they cute!!

 

Wool carding

 

Playing several different games

   

Mowing the lawn!!

 

Petting the animals (goats, chicks, horses, cats, you name it, it was probably pet today by my kids)

 

Fun was had by all!!  We saw 3 different time eras, early 1800's-end 1800's.  We saw 2 different school houses, meeting halls, doctors, blacksmiths, potters, etc. I think the best part was when you talked to them they would only answer as if it were that time period.  ie. the doctor was talking about a new medical discovery, a vaccine to small pox.  Someone asked how antibiotics compare in revelation to vaccines.  The doctor said, 'you talk about vaccines with an s, as if there were more than one, and what is an antibiotic?'

The girls were asked if they could read and write, and the girl who asked went on to say that her paw didn't believe in girls reading, their place is in the home.

It was fun, and eventho it was a LOT of driving it was worth it :)

Last day of homeschool co-op group

   

The day was overcast, but we still met at the park for a picnic lunch and play time.


They went off to play basketball a lot too, but I wasn't walking all the way over there to take pictures... LOL!

It was COLD.  The wind was blowing, so that was the worst of it.  We only stayed nearly 2h.

So, this is the last of our homeschool co-op.  We're disbanding now.  The leaders have kids going into high school and can't concentrate on it any longer.  We have found another group to join tho, so we're pretty happy about that.

Fieldtrip @ the bakery

     

They made chocolate chip/M&M cookies and coffee cakes and decorated cupcakes.  They got to watch how a cake is decorated too and had a grand tour of the whole place.  It was a blast!!

While the cookies and coffee cakes were baking we used our Pizza Hut Book-It coupons for lunch.