Day 28: Kindergarten, Off-beat Attractions, and more Bunch Ball

This morning Grandpa and Grandma got to go to Illini Elementar School to have lunch with Ammon. (I was not allowed to take photos due to security rules at the school unless it was just Ammon... this made it impossible to get any of our time in the lunchroom).







After lunch, we had a break before we needed to go back to the school to meet is teacher and see his classroom.







Sooooo...







We decided to take a look at the GPS and see what would come up if we searched for off-beat attractions. This is what we found around Mapleton and Peoria...







A giant ice cream cone with eyes in Pekin, IL... You don't see that every day...







A miniature St Louis Archway in East Peoria, IL..







A very nice painting on the side of a barn (located at the park where Kaleb plays soccer)...







And the center of the World's largest Solar System Model at the Science Museum in Peoria, IL...



This Sun is thirty-six feet in diameter and the remainder of the scale model is located at various museum sites across IL. A .9 inch Pluto is located over 40 miles away and the next farthest minor planet is located 62 miles away (I can't remember its name). Needless to say, we did not see the entire model... in fact we only saw this sun.







There is a similar model located at University of Colorado at Boulder, which we saw when Brandyn and Jayson went to the World Finals of the Odyssey of the Mind competition in 1989. In that model, the sun was only six inches in diameter and Pluto was 2.5 miles away... The really impressive thing about that model scale was that to reach Alpha Centaurie (the closest star to our sun) you would have had to walk clear to the Panama Canal (2500 miles away).







After visiting these IL "wonders", we went back to the grade school and met Ammon's teacher...







and saw his locker...







and saw his newly learned skill of back-flipping from the jungle gym (of course, we know this feat as the "Double-Double-Flipper-Flipper" made famous by Hannah Giles!







After some KFC for dinner, Kaleb had another Bunch Ball game... they won handily... I think it was 7 to zip by the time the game was over.







Kaleb is a very good little player and looks pretty cool here!







Before bed, Debra whooped up on us at a game of "Five Crowns"... revenge for my victory the night before... Brando is thinking he can pull it off tomorrow night...







We miss all of you. Scotty.