Anyway, one of the things they have at Lagoon is a Pioneer Village. It's made up a lot of original buildings from early in the century with a lot of original equipment that they used in pioneer towns as well as some more recent stuff. In the building where they had old telephone stuff, I found this.

Sorry, it's not a very good picture. I just had my camera phone. Anyway, it's one of those old "spaghetti boards" that telephone operators used to use. Funny thing. When I was in High School, I worked for an answering service and I actually used a board just like this. Yikes, how freaky is that to find it in a museum! And it wasn't all that long ago. Sometime back in the late 70's, but I guess it was older equipment even then. Although the technology has changed so much in the last 20 or 30 years, I guess it makes sense that something like this would end up in a museum. Now wait until I find some of those old punch card machines. I used those in my first computer programming class. Ancient history!

I guess I am old. I remember when typewriters, shorthand and secretarial pools were common. Now I don't think we have an actual typewriter anywhere in our office. I remember when we had just ONE computer in our whole office and you had to get permission to use it. And it had Word Perfect and something called Visicalc on it. That was before Excel or Windows were even invented. Guess I'm dating myself too much. As my kids would say, that was back when dinosaurs ruled the earth!

Anyway, we had a nice time today. I always love taking my kids to amusement parks. I mean it! All of my guys are total troupers when it comes to any kind of amusement park. They hit the ground running and they don't stop until it's time to go home. They don't complain about the heat or that their feet hurt, or anything else and they want to go on every single ride they can possibly go on. These kids are totally fearless and they have a ball!

Actually I was the one who wussed out today. About 5:00 it started raining - big time. And like a dummy, I let them talk me into going on a water ride right about then, so between the rain and the water from the ride, I was totally soaked!!! What is it with amusement parks these days? I never minded rides that splashed a little, but nowadays, they have to completely SOAK you and I just hate walking around in clammy, wet, squishy clothes! Oh well, it's good that we left when we did because everyone was all wet and cold and it was starting to thunder and lightening. In fact, it's still raining 6 hard hours later.

But we had fun and the weather was nice up until that point. It was 105 degrees yesterday, so we were grateful that it was a little overcast and cooler. It's interesting going to places like that. You see some interesting people. I've never felt so thin, or untattoed, or proud that I actually have all my teeth. Wow!