Family reunion

We had a family reunion of my Moms side of the family earlier this July. One of the places we went to was Fort Stanwix! I had so much fun there imagining what it must have been like to live back in that time...and getting to wear those clothes!

Here Dad and Mom are standing by the cannon.

This nice soldier agreed to let me take his picture. ;) Haha! he looks like my younger brother!!


This is the inside of the trading house. Look at all those furs! (no animals were harmed in the recreation of this fort..except that squirrel and he was asking for it!!)


Then we made our way to the Erie Canal! Welcome to the 19 century!
See? No pollution! :)
Okay maybe a little..XD
The horses pulling us 15 miles down the Erie Canal...haha! I don't know that we went more than 1 mile down. :)
View over the bridge...
and under the bridge!

I forget what this building is but I love this picture of it!! <3I would have loved to work here!! Wouldn't it be wonderful to live in this era, wear these clothes, work in the mercantile...and be married to the blacksmith!! I could run the mercantile and he could that care of the livery! ~_*

I LOVE the boots!
Things displayed in the store.
Speaking of the blacksmith....here is where he would be working...
and here are some of the things he would work on.


I LOVE this one!!!!^^^^^

O_O<(....)^^^^^^ Jeffrey and myself standing in the gazebo. The flowers I am holding are from Jeff, he had the conductor on the train we went on to pick them for me. :D
This would be our house (mine and the blacksmith's not Jeff's and mine..though he could come over for a visit. ^_^)
Me outside our ahem *THE* house. ;)

The inside of one of the other buildings...but this would be my parlor.