Sunday, May 29, 2011

Fun at the Capitol 2011

We visited the Capitol building in Pierre again this spring; this time it was when we were in town for the LWML retreat. 

Racing up the Capitol Steps

As usual, the children had a good time looking for special tiles on the floor. 

Everybody looks for blue tiles

A Blue Tile

Sarah found a blue tile

Michael finds a heart tile

A nice lady who works at the Capitol showed us some interesting features that we hadn’t noticed before. 

That column is upside down!

Yes, there’s something strange about that column! 

  Smile 

Smiling with the non-marble marble column

These big marble columns aren’t actually made of solid marble!  They’re made of marble dust mixed with milk, yarn, and some other interesting things. 

We didn’t get to talk with the governor this time, but we did visit the picture of former Governor Mike Rounds. 

I especially enjoyed the beautiful artwork throughout the building. 

Taking the bull by the horns

Looking up into the dome

We can even say that we learned a little about government by visiting both chambers of the state legislature!  Here’s the Senate chamber, which has bigger desks than the House. 

South Dakota Senate chamber

Of course, we had to end our visit with a picture by the statue of General Beadle.  I don’t know why, but they really like this statue.

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