While in Wisconsin we were blessed to get to tour the capitol with the best EVER tour guide! Tour Guide Trish went to school with my sister and I. She is now working for one of the legislators and took time out of her day to act as our guide. It was awesome to see her again and to get the preferential treatment on our tour!!
Jonathan playing politician. This is the room (and podium) that they do press conferences from when in session.
Now Mooner looks quite comfortable behind that podium doesn't she?
In the legislature room the kids got to sit in the seats. Here's the big kids trying it on for size.
... and not to be left out, the tots also got to play politics a bit. Something tells me that Nibbles is going to be sure her vote is heard, whatever it may be, since she already gets the extended height and lean in pose down!
In the Assembly Room the kids heard some pretty cool stories about the ghost of the soldier in the painting that heads the room, and also about Old Abe. It was the place that they had TONS of questions for Trish and she so patiently answered them all!
They got to test the seats in here too!
Nibbles and Jansen had a little side conversation going. I guess they had to confer a little about the information presented them!
The Assembly has one chair that they leave vacant during sessions. It is called "the ghost chair" and it is said to be left for the ghost of the Assembly to remind them of their purpose in sessions. Here Jonathan and Jansen borrow the ghost chair for a moment. He didn't seem to mind sharing as he only really uses it during session we were told!
All of us together by the Bell! Oh, BTW - my sister really does only have 4 kids! She babysits another during the week and so we were blessed to get to take him with us on our adventure that day! That's who is in some of our pics with us if you are wondering!!
Big kids on the skywalk at the upper levels of the Capitol Building.
After our tour we spent a little time outside on the capitol grounds. It was a BEAUTIFUL day and the kids needed a little 'run around' time after having to stay in check in the building.
My little bug squisher and his accomplice. Jonathan was pointing out all the ants and Jansen was stomping them!
Oscar wanted a pic of all the grandkids together at some point in our trip. Yeah right! I'm not sure about anyone else, but we found it impossible to get all 6 looking at the camera and smiling at once, so we had to take what we could get. They are all there at least! We did TRY several times through out the trip anyway! This one was good except the little ones just wouldn't look at the camera!
This is what a day of having to help herd younger kids in the capitol will do to my dear niece. Seems she went a little haywire and couldn't even tell up from down anymore!
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