After Carter's basketball game and lunch, we headed down to the fort. The visitors center opened in 2007, and while small, it's really nice. We stopped there first and the big boys wanted to watch the 20 minute film about Nashville during the Civil War. They watched it intently but I'm not sure how much they got. Rylan asked if it was about a different world. When I told him it was about our city 150 years ago he then asked if there were dinosaurs then. I don't think Rylan has a great grasp of time yet :)
After the film, we went outside to walk around the fort (some of the stonework is in the distance behind the boys). The boys were so excited to see everything. I have no idea why they were so into the fort and information about the Civil War. They also wanted to act out fighting. Everything stick was a gun.
Carter took this picture of Grayson and me. Not too bad :)
This is the one and only entrance into the fort. And love this picture of the big boys :)
Inside of the fort are these wooden walkways that were constructed to keep visitors off the stonework. They are actually pretty fun paths for the kids to follow.
The boys liked finding all the places they thought canons had been set up during the war.
Rylan took this one of Grayson and me. I turned Grayson around in the Bjorn to face me after he started getting fussy and he passed out.
It was fun exploring the fort with the boys. There really wasn't all that much too it but they loved it! While at the fort, we search for and found 3 letterboxes (these are Grayson's first finds).
Inside the second letterbox we found was a cootie. We got to take this stamp with us and we'll leave it in a letterbox when we find one out of town.
Such a fun local adventure with my boys!
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