Elroy Museum Field Trip

Can anyone tell me the name of this wierd plant we had growing in front of our house? Kyle's certain he planted it and we believe it came from a Dr. Seuss book. I think it's amaranth, but I'm not sure.

We're involved with an active home-schooling group, and at least every month there is a field trip we can attend.

A couple of weeks ago we went to the Elroy Museum. We'd never been in this museum before because it's only open on the weekend and we've never made the time.

It was a cute little museum all about the history of Elroy, Wisconsin. There is a lot of rail road history here.

This won't be on the Top 10 favorite field trip list because the kids were kind of bored with it. The librarian gave the tour and while she's wonderful with story time she was quite long winded on this trip. She was also pretty nervous about the kids in the museum...home schooled kids are very inquisitive and they tend to take a hands-on approach to learning. This museum was strictly HANDS OFF everything.