The last day of our fun weekend. We got up a little later than we normally do because of the storm last night and after a shower and breakfast we were putting together our plans for the day.
We decided to head back home and then along the way we stopped off at the Floyd County Museum in Charles City.
Now if you’re wondering what this museum has in it, well honestly so were we. It’s one of those places where we’ve literally driven by it about a million times going to other places. But today we decided we had the time so we were going to check it out.
Holy Cow! This place is HUGE! From the outside we thought we’d be in there for about 20 minutes to an hour but I think we were in there for around 2 hours and probably didn’t even see everything.
The whole reason that we decided to stop is because Daryl is an Oliver kind of guy and this was an Oliver Museum. His favorite tractors are Olivers and if you have been around any farmer, these guys are very L O Y A L to their brands. And for Daryl and his dad? They liked Oliver tractors.
Now getting back to this museum as you can guess they have all Oliver tractors because the factory that built these tractors was located in Charles City, Iowa.
But the museum has tons more than just tractors. They have a Olympic torch that was carried through the town for the Olympic games in Atlanta in 1996, they have a lot of old buggies and more fossils and other artifacts than you can count.
Just one of the many display cases
They have the whole upstairs set up in individual rooms as if someone lived there and they even moved the inside of a one room school house for a display. I don’t have enough room on this post to say what they all have there and with the cost of only $5 to go into it and it’s definitely some place that everyone should go visit once!
This is a Mail buggy and it even had a heater inside.
One of the many rooms in the museum
Here is a picture of the Hart-Parr 40 that was build built between 1912 to 1914. 
With only 197 built during that time, this tractor might be the only original one left.
Here is the funniest thing that I think that I saw today. Who says you can’t learn something new everyday? Check out what the saying says-
But the main attraction was the tractors. I think Daryl was in Oliver heaven! It brought back a lot of memories for him when he was working with his dad farming and it was pretty cool listening to him tell some old stories that I hadn’t heard before. Here is a picture that I took with Daryl in the middle of all the tractors. It’s kind of hard to see him but he’s there.
Now it’s time to head home and get ready for the upcoming week. We had a chance to skype with Kyle tonight and to also check in with William.
Without spending tons of money, we sure had a lot of fun and we need to do this more often!
Cheers to weekend get-aways! Whoo Hoo!!