This year I've taken a few trips. Keeping me busy and off the computer. Each trip turned out great but this last trip brought me to a place that I got to know well by reading the books called Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder. When I was a little girl I read all her books about her life growing up in late 1800's and like many others I watched the TV show too. Yes, I know it was just a show but the books and how she talked about growing up fascinated me. So I have a friend that lives in Minnesota now so we decided to take a short trip to Walnut Grove, to one of the first places Laura grew up. There is a nice museum there that contains a lot of history on the Ingalls family and others who she wrote about in her books. To actually see photos of the real Ma, Pa, Laura, Mary and Carrie, along with letters Laura wrote herself. Then just a mile out of town we got to visit where Pa built a dugout home along Plum Creek. Of course the home is no longer there but the hole in the hill still exist and the plum thickets she talks about still grows and the prairie fields she once played in still is there.
