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Happy Birthday

26 Feb

Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday Buffalo Bill,
You don’t look one hundred and sixty six………
and you have a great view from the hill.

Well, it’s really a mountain, but that doesn’t rhyme. It was the Buffalo Bill Birthday celebration on top of Lookout Mountain today. They had a new exhibit in the musuem, Buffalo Bill dime novels (or in the case of the late 1800 ones, nickel novels.)

Bethany was having a conversation with Teddy, Annie and the Bills about the comics. She said it was sad that people would rather read about imaginary heroes like Spiderman instead of the exploits of Buffalo Bill. The lady dressed as Annie is a cowboy poet and singer, she was performing later on in the day. Hannah did her Annie impression outside.

We thought the comic display was great, lots of well preserved items from the dime novel heyday.

Since they had Bill as a hero they showed him with a cape, and they made a flat Superhero Bill for the kids to carry around and take pictures with.

James and Joel had taken this path up to the museum.

They walked up the mountain (via the road) 6.2 miles in an impressive 2 hours. They made it to the gift shop just in time for the birthday song and handing out of cake and ice cream.

We walked up to Bill’s grave and enjoyed the view.

See the snow?

Yeah, it’s the reason the buffalo chip tossing contest was cancelled. Seems the chips were left unguarded and are now resting under 2 feet of snow. We don’t toss wet chips and no one brought any dry ones, so there was no contest. Darn. We wandered around a bit and then headed down the hill to the park where James’ car was. We ate lunch quickly (cold wind will make you eat really fast) and Bill enjoyed a sandwich too.

Green mountain in the distance in this shot.

Here is about where the funicular ride (it’s like a little train that goes up a hill, it was counterbalanced with one train going up and one train going down) was up Lookout Mt. back in the day.