Mississippi River Museum

We decided to take a road trip to Dubuque on Saturday to visit the Mississippi River Museum.  I had wanted to check out the fall colors, but not many leaves had changed yet.  The museum was fun, though.  The highlight was the stingray tank.  A bunch of stingrays were swimming in a shallow tank and they let us reach in and pet them.  There were different aquariums representing North American habitats and even a sea turtle and an alligator.  There were two different ships we got to walk through.  We had joked that maybe there was a play area for little kids where babies could crawl around with tortoises.  As luck would have it, there was!  Unfortunately no live tortoises this time.  Edith was a great baby for the trip.  We were there during her afternoon nap and she started to get tired.  As soon as we started the van she fell asleep and took a nice nap the whole way home.

As soon as she got home she had to go over to the plant and eat dirt!