Our adventure basically started in Ohio where we bought our travel trailer, but we missed seeing the Ohio capitol so we made our way back to the city of Columbus. Before we got there however we made a stop back at our first camp in Amish country.

We made it over to the little town of Sugarcreek where they have the world’s largest cuckoo clock.

It was something our daughter really wanted to see, there is a great little museum across the street that we got to check out too.

The Alpine museum is free, but does accept donations (it is so cool you will want to make one!).

In the museum you will find the main floor has several rooms set up that show the life of the Amish. A kitchen, a woodworking shop, and a printing office are just a few of the interesting things you will see.

On the second floor and in the basement there are many old antiques. There are way too many neat things to list them all, but some that we enjoyed were the restored fire fighting equipment, an old TV set from the 1940’s, and an old lawnmower that resembled a set of hair clippers.

At the end of our exploration of the museum the lady at the desk let the kids try their hand at the alpine horns.

It was so funny watching them blow into these horns. We were all amazed that the youngest seemed to have the hang of it right away. We love these little museums because there is so much to learn from them and we always see or try something new.

Columbus Ohio is a beautiful capital city.

The capitol building does not have much green space around it, but not far from it is a lovely park near the river where we were able to sit and eat our lunch. There are several nice statues on the grounds depicting important people to the state. This building is very official looking with very straight lines and a cupola instead of a dome. It is impressive.

A volunteer was on hand to give us a tour, he had worked in the building for many years so he had some great information to share. Inside the rotunda when you look up you will find that there is a dome after all, which I found to be a very cool effect because it does not appear to be domed on the outside. The floor in this area was also very interesting, the tiles in the center had a nice story behind them, but our guide said there was never any evidence to back it up, we really liked the tile work though which had a cool effect.

There were many paintings and statues throughout the Ohio capitol, but my favorites were the two in each hall off the rotunda.

One was of Thomas Edison with depictions of him throughout his life and the other was of the Wright Brothers and their timeline of flight. After we finished our tour of this lovely building we headed over to the COSI which was only a short walk away, feel free to watch us exploring it in this video. Let us know of any cool museums you have visited or a capitol building you really like in the comments section and thanks for reading!

Here are some links and more pictures for the places we talked about:

The Ohio State House

http://www.ohiostatehouse.org/visit/guided-tours

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Alpine Hills Historical Museum

http://www.ohiosamishcountry.com/listing/alpine-hills-historical-museum-sugarcreek-information-center.html

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The World’s Largest Cuckoo Clock

https://www.facebook.com/worldslargestcuckooclock/

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