It started with all the kids at the Museum, which is actually located a few blocks away from the Capitol Building. Here the boys are listening to the speech about PNW native Americans in a replicated, but authentic, native house.They learned the different ways to cook fish, how they slept in one room, and the differences between plain and forest indians.
Here Riley is playing the drum, we got to play with some fun artifacts including baskets, food tools and oars.
Give Riley a question and he's fixated until he knows the correct answer. Are those dried salmon real or artificial? Answer: both!
Love this saying, so true.
Riley with the statue that is supposed to have powers, don't get too close!
After the Pack toured the museum, they were kind enough to let up use nice spare room to each our sack lunches. After this some decided to go home, but a couple of us wanted to stick around a tour the actual Capitol building.
There are 4 reasons why Saturdays in late April ROCK for visiting.
#1. FREE parking, like close!
We parked 50 feet from this statue, it's a World War memorial.
Side track, this tree across the street is wicked awesome.
#2. No tourist crowds! Had to wait 10 seconds before it was clear enough to take Riley's picture on the front steps, he was amazed with all these steps.
Another detour, the chandelier is gorgeous, the gold accents on white marble is amazing.
#3. You actually see laws being made! Both the Senate and the House were in session, and we saw everything! I always thought that all the action happens during the weekdays, but wrong.
The Senate was discussing measure 1782, concerning parent participation in dependency matters. and 1619 concerning the use of capital projects funds by school districts. How cool is that?!
This other picture is of the House, I was explaining the difference to Riley but he already knew most of it.
Nick Reese and his son Andrew are another parent/scout pair from our group who sat with us during the Senate and were surprised to see later across from us in the House. After this, we met up, went back down stairs, and chatted a bit with the State Troopers before browsing the governor's office. Which leads me to...
#4. We met the Governor! Riley, I and the Reese's we went to the Governor's office just to have a peek, and there behind the desks was her and her aids. She smiled, welcomed us, ask the kids their names and what they saw. She was so nice and now the two of them have total bragging rights. Wish I took a pic, but thought it would be weird as she was 15 feet away.
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