When you are in Wichita, KS and it is raining then you may as well stay in bed!!  Yes it is raining again!  We did go to the Cowtown Museum today and it was very interesting to see the town set up in a museum setting.  They had livestock that stays at the museum all the time and some very interesting people that work in the museum and do some acting.  They have a gun fight in the street when it is not raining.  Most of the museum is dedicated to the Wichita area during the 1870's.  But it was interesting to read about and see some of the things that happened during this period.  You know Wyatt Earp was an assistant marshal during this time, but he got fired!  Conduct unbecoming an officer of the law or so said the news paper articles and other documentation that we saw.  He also repaired the sidewalk and shoveled the streets.  Of what you might ask?  Well they did not have cars during this time and the only transportation was a horse.  So what does a horse do when standing in the street for an hour or more?  Well that is why Wyatt had to shovel.

We stayed at the Cowtown Museum for most of the day and since there was no gun fight we left and went to the parking lot and had our own fight over where we would go next.  Cindy won again and we went to eat some lunch.  We travel to the old town of Wichita but it rained so we went hat and boot shopping.  No we did not but a hat for $230. How in the heck can a cowboy afford these prices?  The boots were all made either in Mexico or China.  Now if I could have found an affordable pair made in Mexico I may have bought them.  But how many Chinese have you seen wearing a pair of cowboy boots?  Well there you go and I wanted MADE IN AMERICA.

This is the street or at least one of the streets in the Cowtown

Look where Cindy ended up!

This is a saddle shop where they made saddles for the cowboys.  What Cindy and I did not know was that the start of the saddle making was to use a wooden form and then they layer the leather over the wooden form until the leather dried and then they used other layers to make the saddle..  You can see the wooden form in the upper right of this photo and the rest is tools used to make the saddle.

Does anyone know what this is that she is working on and what she is doing?  This is for you younger generation to figure out.

Outside the Cowtown Museum

We were absolutely dead after all the walking inside the museum.

Well we head to Goodland, Kansas tomorrow.  This is just a stop over for a night to break up the trip before we hit Estes Park, CO.