June 15 - Mine Storage

The potential for storage in this huge mine became known in 1959 and the mine now houses movies, costumes for movies, and all sorts of other things.  There once was a plan to put nuclear waste in the mine and let the mine seal itself shut but the plan fell through when scientists discovered that it would take 500 years for the mine to close just 1".
Top photo: Tommy Lee Jones wore these shades in the movie "Men In Black" - one of our favorites.
Bottom photo: The Superman costume was worn by Dean Cain in the TV Superman series - 1993-1997.

June 13 - Sunday afternoon

We went to see Jen and Ken at their campsite in Hesston, KS, and it looked like this.

We are staying 30 miles away from Hesston at the Kansas State Fairgrounds in Hutchinson, KS  and when we got home it looked like this.

A few hours later, another thunderstorm blew in, just like last night except this time the wind blew harder.  There were 60mph wind gusts rocking our rig.  Jen and Ken's tent has stood up well to all three of the pretty fierce thunderstorms we've experienced in less than a week.  Little Simon doesn't seem to mind them.

June 13 - Hutchinson UMC

We are told there are five Methodist Churches in Hutchinson, but this was the first one.  It was also the first one we found on the internet so it is the one we went to.  We also joined the 50/50 Sunday school class.  I'm not sure why it is called that but it is made of up folks our age and we enjoyed them and the class very much.  This church serves coffee in a lovely carpeted parlor that has a fireplace in it.