Our week for studying Missouri finally arrived! Along with it: Maine, Arkansas, and Michigan. We skipped the taste testing scheduled on Wednesday in favor of some character training due to bad attitudes (both kids' and mama's). She did it before in 1st grade anyway, so no big loss. Somehow, I managed to get through the whole week without taking a single photo! Not sure how that happened…but to make up for it, I brought my camera along on our field trip to the Pony Express Museum in St. Joe, Missouri. (It's actually St. Joseph, but no one around here actually calls it that…not if they're natives anyway!) We listened to Adventures in Odyssey on CD on our drive to St. Joe. Everyone, even Hubby, got caught up in the story. When I was about 8, we didn't have a TV at our new home in Florida. We didn't know anybody and didn't have any neighbors. There certainly wasn't any internet to entertain us then either. I remember lis...