August 28, 2012

We slept till 8:30 this morning, rather late for us.  I cooked breakfast and then Jim went to pay for last night and this night at the fairgrounds camping area.  While he was gone I found the geocache that we looked for last night.  There was a 190 year old red wood tree that had been turned into a home at the fairgrounds.  It left today but I got a picture of it.  The man gave me a postcard and I mailed it to mother.

We drove into downtown Springfield and went to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum and then next door the to Lincoln Library.  After lunch we saw Lincoln's law office and the Old Capitol building where he gave his famous "A House Divided" speech.   Then went to the Lincoln Home National Historic Site and got a tour ticket for 4:00 pm.  After going through the home that Lincoln lived in before he was president we got back to the parking garage at 5:00 pm and then drove to Lincoln’s tomb.  We got there at 5:15 and it closed at 5:00 pm.  We got the see the outside but will have to go back in the morning to visit the inside of the tomb.

Robert told us last night that there was another brewery in town but they didn’t have a tasting room.  He told us about a bar where we could try some.  We drove to the Tin Can Pub and shared a beer and waited for the rush hour traffic to clear out.  Then we drove to VFW Post 755 and had a beer and talked to some of the men there.  We went back to the Casita and I cooked supper and Jim watched the Republican Convention on TV.