Cheyenne Day 2

Friday
On our second day in Cheyenne we had decided to do indoor stuff, on our way into town we had to stop at the Merci Boxcar to get the pics we didn't get yesterday, then, after another stop for coff/T at Starbucks, we made for the Capitol, which is very nice, but not overwhelming. Neither house was in session, so it was very quiet. we did find a chap on the top floor ferreting up in the roof space, doing some exploration to see what was beneath the paintwork, because the building had been extended and revamped several times since it was built. Nnwo they wanted to get it back to it's original design. We had a fascinating time, seeing how the rooms had been in 1867.
We found a memorial to 9/11 that was made from one of the box sections from the 65th floor. The whole section had been taken by Oak Ridge High School in TN and cut into 50 sections, each section was mounted and then one was sent to each State as a memorial.
Outside it was raining, so we quickly moved on to lunch, which we had in Sanfords, which had been recommended by the State Trooper in the Capitol. Now this was an amazing place. It was absolutely full of 50',60's and 70's junk, all very neatly displayed around the walls and between the tables. The food was very nice too.
After lunch we bowled on up to the State Museum. Wyoming has a very small population, about 500,000 people, so their state organisations tend to be quite small, which was the case with the Capitol this morning and equally true of the museum this afternoon. What it did do though was give us a very good idea of all the things that have happened in Wyoming, which again didn't take long, once you had got the shooting, drinking and womanising out of the way. The did have one of those 3D map models that light up when you press the buttons, this was great for showing us the variety of Immigrant Trails, Mountain Men meeting places, U.S. Army Forts and battles with the Indians. Gave some good context to our visit to Wyoming. I noticed some pictures of the coal mines they have here, unbelievable amounts of coal, just sitting their, why we ever sent men underground when there is all this just for the picking up I do not know!

However we did meet some very nice people, on the way in a school bus was waiting to pick up a group from the museum, as we passed it the door opens and a voice calls "Sally", much to our astonishment. Then also much to our astonishment Val, our Trolley Dolly from yesterday, jumps out and introduces us to al the 4th grader kids she is driving round the town, that was fun!!!the curator had spent a long time in the UK, at York, no less, so we had a good chat with him. The volunteer on the door was very friendly as well. While we were going round the museum we kept seeing another couple, so of course we got to talking. It turns out that she is a presbyterian minister from the next place we are visiting, Fort Laramie and Guernsey and he is a friend from Cheyenne, so we had a good long chat with them, which was also fun. The only disappointment was that they nothing on display from the Merci Boxcar, it was all in storage. Still never mind.
So that pretty well wraps up Cheyenne, Now we get to the problem - the weather. We know that it has been deteriorating, today it rained a lot - tomorrow it set to rain and rain and get windy, Sunday we are set to get SNOW! In quantity. So we are going to get food in and hunker down for the weekend.

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