Day 2: Little Town on the Prairie, The Laura Ingall's Wilder Homestead

Today we drove 6 hours and arrived at the Ingall's Homestead around 2:00pm. We spent 2 hours there. It was totally amazing to me, standing there on the 160 acres that the Ingall's family actually lived and farmed over 200 years ago. The buildings were not the originals of the Ingall's family, but they were original buildings from the area that resembled what the Ingall's family lived in over the years that Laura was growing up.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Jayme is her biggest fan.

This is a view of the farm with a shanty type house on the left which is a replica of what the Ingall's family lived in while farming here.

Jodie was most interested in the farm kittens.

Here's the house. Looks similar to the one in the Little House on the Prairie series.

Chase is learning how to operate the wood stove.

Jayme washes clothes on a washboard.

Chase wrings them out.

There were a few new foals.

Chase is learning to make rope.

This is Mallory, a college student who works here. She drove us in a wagon around the property.

This was an actual school from the area that was in operation as a

one-room school house until 1961.

Jayme puts on her prairie girl dress. Doesn't she look excited about it?

The kids are getting a lesson.

Time to return to the wagon.

The team.

This is an actual dug-out house, or sod-house. It was dreary and extremely small. Can't imagine living in it.

It was a great afternoon. We left there and ate supper at a local restaurant called The Oxbow. Then we drove 2 hours to Mitchell, SD where we are now...and get this....we're watching Field of Dreams. Very appropriate after driving through cornfields all day.