Buffalo Bill Museum

We had a fun day today at the Buffalo Bill Museum. It was their annual Christmas holiday Open House, which is free entrance to the public with local choirs, cloggers, tap dancers performing in different parts of the museum. We asked our new friends, Jodi and Ricky and their 2yr old daughter, Brinn to meet us there. They brought along a friend back from Iraq and we met Jason's cousin and boyfriend there as well.

We started off, while we waited for people to get there, in the gun museum. To me, this is not all that interesting, but others like my husband, could spend days in there alone, looking at the 1700 guns they have on display. Me and Katelyn walked pretty quickly through one part of it. There is a cabin with different mounts, so we looked at the animals.

Soon, we were one big group, mingling through the Plains Indian museum, looking for horses for Brinn to look at. The girl is obsessed with horses and what little girl shouldn't be. We soon split up and boys went to the guns while Jodi, Brinn, Katelyn and I went to the art museum. There weren't as many people in there and the girls could walk around. We found a drawing station and the girls occupied themselves for a couple of minutes.
Brinn saw the model horse and that was going to be her focus for her drawing. She and Katelyn have struck up a really good friendship the couple of times they have played together. Brinn loves to ride a friends pony, named Petey. Any white horse she sees is "Petey!" She and her parents live and work at the CWAM base, so there are other horses and she knows their names. Before they came, Jodi said that Brinn thought that Katelyn could ride Petey, she would ride King and Mommy would ride Rain and they would go out and round up cows. She didn't know where she got that idea from but I guess it's a date for next summer or so a 2 yr old thinks.
(Brinn smiling goofy, she really is a cute little girl and quite the talker)

Since they forgot their stroller and we didn't know you could get them from the museum, we would take turns using ours. Katelyn would ride and Brinn would walk and then they would switch. Sometimes Brinn wanted to walk with Katelyn. They ran up and down the wheelchair ramp in the art gallery, just to run off some steam. We met up with the dads and made a quick walk around the Buffalo Bill part and met up with the rest and went through the nature part with the occasional banana muffin thrown in for snack since we were over lunch.

Upon our exit, we met up with a number of friends from Meeteetse on their way in. We left at 2pm which was past the girls nap time and lunch time, so we went to lunch only to have them both fall asleep. Oh well, it was a good time with some new friends. We have a few things in common with them. Ricky is also from Canada and we know a mutual person from Winkler, whom I went to high school with. He went to and worked with Ricky and Jodi at the LA YWAM base and married an American girl. YWAM makes the world so much smaller.