Today, Krista and I took the kids to the Maryhill Museum and the Stonehenge Replica. For a week, we have been studying Stonehenge and reading up on the Museum, so the kids would know about it before we went. All the staff at the Museum were awesome! Each of us were able to get an activity guide that gave information and asked questions… if we took the completed ones to the front desk they gave us a postcard from the gift shop for free. It was a great way to get the kids engaged with the exhibts.
This is the first view of the Museum when you arrive on the property.
The kids going into the Museum
In one part of the museum they had an interactive kids room, Robbie is building a sculpture out of tin foil in the manner of Auguste Rodin.
We ate lunch on the grounds and then went to view the Outdoor Sculpture Garden.
One of the Outdoor Sculptures was a throne similar to Queen Marie’s of Romania – So the girls and I got to be Queens…. for a minute – McCara made very sure that hers and my legs were crossed correctly as per instructed by Julie Andrews in Princess Diaries LOL
The kids are all sitting on the rocks of the outlook.. with the Columbia River in the background.
Krista and I at the outlook
Our next stop was the Stonehenge Replica. Sam Hill, the builder and owner of the land, built this as a memorial to the service men of Klickatat County who died in World War I. On the inside horseshoe there were plaques with names for each of the men from the county who died.
Liam and Robbie acting out a human sacrifice on the alter…. for a long time it was believed that the original Stonehenge was a Druid Temple that human sacrifices were made at.
We had a great day!
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