Baton Rouge, Louisiana Day 1

 While Palmer, Lincoln and Dad were cleaning up the flood in Louisiana, McKay, Hunter and I went 30 minutes north to Baton Rouge (the flood clean up was in Gonzales) to do some sight seeing.  I was pretty excited to go and see their old state capitol since it looked like a castle to me.  I'm so glad that we went here because it was so cool!

 These two get along really well.  They are so funny together and I loved getting to spend time with them.

 This capitol was SO kid friendly.  Right when we went in they asked us if we wanted to watch a spooky movie (they assured us it wasn't too spooky).  We went in and saw a totally cool movie about the history of the capitol building with lots of sound effects.  We all loved it.

 One of their governors (Huey Long) was assassinated.  They had so many displays about him.

 Including the gun that was used to kill him.

 Seriously, how cool is this building!  I couldn't stop taking pictures.  

 Hunter and McKay kept putting on singing and dancing shows on this stage.  We would leave to see something else, and they would head right back here.  They gave everyone quite the show.  

 More of their show on the stage.

 Seriously these two are so entertaining.

 They had a whole room for kids.  Hunter really got into the politician thing.

 So did McKay.

 This says "I have a dream that we will be here."  I don't think he knew the rest of that line from the Martin Luther King speech.

 We were excited to go and explore the USS Kid, but because of the flooding, the relief efforts were set up in front of the visitor's center so they decided to close early and we didn't get to go.  It was a little disappointing.

 We ended up heading to the Louisiana Art and Science Museum instead.  I really love that my kids can spend hours in places like this.  They played with these tubes and balls FOREVER.  

 I never realized how hard it is to cross your eyes!  McKay and Hunter were determined to do it because this mask looked like it was crossing it's eyes.

 Heading to see the mummy.

The mummy was actually so creepy!  It's face was unwrapped and creeped us all out a little bit.

 We found a cute little craft corner and the boys made these trees.  It was such a fun day with these cuties!

 After the boys were done working for the day we headed to dinner at the New Orleans Hamburger and Seafood company.  We had alligator poppers for our appetizer and Palmer was NOT a fan.

 Hunter was a fan for the most part.

 Josh and I thought they were okay, just a bit mushy.

 After we headed back to our hotel to swim.  The boys just need a hotel pool to be happy.

It was a beautiful sunset that night.  A great ending to our first experience in Louisiana!