Only a few buildings are occupied right now and as I mentioned before some are completely torn down. It was really hard to see the place so uncared for.
Anderson Library a place my dad and other builders restored 20+ years ago was pretty run down as well. It is obvious not many organizations pride themselves on the upkeep of their property like the way international does.
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They had ducks, monkeys, a lioness, peacocksN deer, bald eagle, bison, and as I mentioned prairie dogs.
Prairie dogs are dig tunnels under ground and pop in and out of the groud they're awfully cute
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Here we are in front of the welcome sign. We went to see our old home on the Way College of Emporia that was cool except emporia hall the dorm iwe lived in had been torn down along with a bunch of other buildings. Many other structures. Have been added to the property. We mostly took video and pictures on our other cameras so you'll have to wait for that.
We went to the zoo and the vetrans park and peter pan park.
The zoo had prairie dogs that were so cute.
What was really cool was that at peter pan park still had the same old playground equipment.
The next few posts will be pictures of emporia.
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It was neat the rivers off the lake were flooded. We weren't able to find the stepping stones we used to walk across on they may have been way under water.
Of course I forgot to take a picture on this phone but here is a picture of the beautiful day we've been travelling with.
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We heard the funniest thing on the radio this morning, the DJ announced the lunch menu for 3-4 differnt counties! How fun is that :)
Another p.o.i are the oil rigs you will see all across the Kansas landscape, I took a picture for you.
Oh this is great, our hotel had the brochure stand of attractions and one of them was for Emporia. I picked up a few for my family, it is fun to see your home town is a tourist attraction.
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We stayed the night in Dodge City, KS at the travel lodge.
Our rating is a 2.5 out of 5.
We ate breakfast at a chilhood favorite Daylight Donuts. I'm hoping that the shop in Emporia is still there so I can get a pict. They used to have a big donut in the parking lot.
We woke up at 5:15 and it is 6:38 and we're getting the hell out of Dodge LOL!!!!
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