Ryan surprised me with a hotel room with a hottub at the Grand Prairie Hotel in Hutchinson. The hotel features an indoor water park called Splash Down which is a lot of fun. Unfortunately, we ended up moving hotel rooms at 10:00. The room we had reserved was in a block of rooms reserved for a Ducks Unlimited convention. They were a little more than noisy. Even though the new room didn't have a hot tub, I am glad we moved. We wouldn't have gotten any sleep!
It was fun to enjoy the water park, a nice dinner without feeding a toddler, and a peaceful shopping trip to the mall. On Saturday, we went to the Kansas Underground Salt Museum. It was so neat! First they took us on a tram ride though the salt mine where we learned about the salt mining process and even got to "mine" for some salt ourselves. There are over 67 miles worth of tunnels down there. It's huge! After the tram ride, we were able to wander through the museum and gift shop. In addition to mining for salt, the underground mine is used for archival storage. All but 1 major movie studio keep their movie reels and other movie relics in storage in the Kansas Underground Salt Mine. It is a constant 68 degrees down there and there is very low moisture. They had a few of the movie cases and movie costumes/props on display.
Here are some pictures. I'm still contemplating on how best to scrap these. The subject is a bit unusual!
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