Christmas In The Olden Days!!!

  There is an agricultural museum in Delaware that we have never really thought to visit...after all, how interesting can agriculture really be!!! However, they were having a one day Christmas festival, so with nothing else really going on, we decided to give it a try.  To our surprise this place ended up being really neat!! Out back behind the museum there was a whole city laid out with actual buildings from the early settlements of Delaware!!  They were all so beautiful and we had so much fun walking around the city like we were living in the olden days!!

Here's a beautiful picture of the kids in the old city as the sun was setting!!

 Here we are at the old train station where the station master was a telling a true ghost story from an early Delaware settlement!!  It was freezing out side, so every building was heated with old wood burning stoves!!  They were so cool!!  And the old guys being the station masters were darling :)

 Here we are in front of a beautiful covered bridge that took us into the city portion of the town!!

 This, of course, was my FAVORITE building...the old school house.  It had cool old desks with writing slates inside!!  I would have loved to be a teacher back in those days :) There was a special little Christmas craft to do inside the school house!!  It was so fun!!

 Another beautiful building was the chapel.  Inside they even had carolers singing Christmas songs!!! Outside the building there was a huge bell that Beckham, in particular, loved to ring over and over again. We eventually had to tear him away from it...it was a very loud bell!!

Some buildings that we didn't get pictures of were a shop, an old home, a barber shop and a blacksmith shop!!

Inside the museum there were many booths set up with Christmas crafts and cool demonstrations of how they did things in the olden days like making brooms, a loom making rugs, etc etc!!  The kids loved making Christmas tree ornaments!!

Naturally we got see Santa and Mrs. Clause!!  The kids were in heaven!!

What a fun Christmas adventure we stumbled across!!