At Strataca, the Kansas Underground Salt Mine Museum

Six-hundred-and-fifty feet below the surface: the salt that covers Chicago's streets in winter. One of Kansas's Eight Wonders.

At the Museum of World Treasures

You never know when the first lines of the Gettysburgh Address will come in handy, but when Abe Lincoln showed up at the Museum of World Treasures, Emilio came through in a pinch.

Other highlights: mummies, the hall of Buddhas, the hall of Presidents, Pirate Island, and the Castle Playhouse.

Let the Road Trip Begin

First stop: Stillwater, Eskimo Joe's.


We have arrived. Our destination: The Broadview Hotel on the eastern bank of the Arkansas River in Wichita, Kansas.

Because Nina wanted to swing and sing

Another first

Pablo had a loose tooth when we went to school this morning, and he came home from school one tooth short. Miss Jerah, one of his favorites, did the pulling.

Flying Snowpuffs and a Hatted Snowblob

And he shall be "Gilbert." (I was not involved in the naming process.)

A Post-Prandial Trot

Uno-heads

Ninjago 101

Just Being Silly

Darts, Drawing, and Desesperado

First Visit to the Science Museum of Oklahoma

Bienvenido al 2014