This weekend we took a journey back in time to visit the native peoples of Wisconsin. There is a State Park here preserving the village of the Aztalan people that were apart of the Mississippian Native Americans. The people who settled Aztalan built large, flat-topped pyramidal mounds and a stockade around their village. They hunted, fished, and farmed on the floodplain of the Crawfish River. You can see portions of the stockade and the mounds that have been reconstructed in the park. It was a beautiful day to visit the old village, the leaves were beautiful fall colors and the weather was perfect. One the way home we stopped to pick up some real Wisconsin made cheese, another essential to a day trip in America's Dairy Land.
The ceremonial building mound.
The river that they build their village next to.
We are on top of one of the mounds with a typical Wisconsin farm in the background.
The posts that mark the outside walls of the village.
Chuck, Shay, and Brad looking at the wall.
You can see the colors of the trees surrounding the wall.
Us on top of the ceremonial mound.
This was our stop for real Wisconsin Cheese.
4 comments:
Sounds like an interesting outing. The picture of you two on top of the ceremonial site is amazing--the incredibly green grass, the fall colors in the trees, the happy couple. I think you should make that your Christmas card or make an 8X10 for your house. :) I hope everything is going well for you!
FUN! Where is that?
That's looks so cool! I'm glad it was fun and you made it safely. AND that you got to eat cheese. And even learn on your trip! Wow, you are good at doing lots in little time! And I second Julia about the picture (:
I love that you got cheese. Awesome.
No, we did not sand it with an electric sander. We really should have because doing it by hand takes FOREVER! So, unless you have access to an electric sander I would vote NOT to refinish it. Seriously.
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