Oz Museum

For the drive back home, we decided to take it a little easier and do it in three days instead of two.  So when we stopped in Kansas, we detoured to the little town that built a museum in tribute to the Wizard of Oz.  It had tons of memorabilia and original things from the movie.  Tink was in heaven!  She has loved the Wizard of Oz since before she turned 2!  PC used to tell her the story as a bedtime story and when she was a little older, it was one of the first movies she ever watched.  (Wizard of Oz and Cinderella were the only movies she watched for a long time!)  When we moved to TX when she was two-years-old, she would dress up in the Dorothy dress I made her with her ruby slippers, hang a basket with her stuffed puppy who became known to us as Toto and she named different pieces of furniture the Lion, Scarecrow, and Tin Man.  She has an amazing imagination, and the fascination for Wizard of Oz has never left her.  Ever since she was able to see the play Wicked in London, she has been gaga for the Wicked Witch.  Her favorite color is green!  Anyway, it wasn't huge, but she loved it.  We thought it was pretty cool too.

Outside of the museum (and one spot inside as well), they had some of the original Munchkin actors and actresses put their hands in the concrete as tribute to them.  The kids loved comparing their hand sizes with the real Munchkins! 

Another nice thing about making the trip in three days was that we could relax at the hotel!  We went swimming and then ordered Pizza from Papa Johns.  Yum!  We had the whole pool to ourselves too because we were there early enough. The only bad thing was that the entire pool area was tile!  It was so easy to slip! I didn't stay long with Baby Girl because it was too slick to even walk around.