My day today/The Hayes house and museum

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We had a really long day today. We went to the Rutheford B. Hayes house and museum. I went once on a field trip when I was a kid to tour the house but the museum was closed at that time. They have since remodeled the downstairs of the house to look like it did when Hayes lived there. Before that, it looked like it did when the last of the Hayes family left in 1965. The house is huge but still looks homey. I really enjoyed it. I was fascinated hearing all about the house and Hayes and everything he and his wife did for our country and their surrounding area. He sounded like an amazing man. The house tour guide showed us a picture of Hayes son Web and I was like man he looks like Teddy Roosevelt and he informed us that Teddy was actually around Web's age I think actually a few years younger and they were good friends and Web was often mistaken for Teddy and I guess once when someone told Web he looked like Teddy he said "No, Teddy looks like me". I laughed at that. Hayes did a lot for the community including starting the hospital that is there. We were told he was the first president to have a telephone at the white house and the telephone number was 1. When on the tour we went into the master bedroom which was downstairs and where both Hayes and his wife died and the master bathroom we learned was also used as his office. He had a desk and everything placed in there so he could do his work. The guide said he was quoted as saying that a man is never disturbed while in the bathroom and that's why he used it as a sort of office. The museum was interesting too. The grounds and the library there are open to the public for free and Hayes and his wife were both buried on the grounds and you can see his tomb when you're walking around. While walking the grounds we were super amused at how friendly the squirrels were. The squirrels were allowing visitors to feed them from their hands which I've heard you can train them to do that (but honestly probably shouldn't) and all of the squirrels were pretty fat probably from everyone feeding them. My husband called out to one of the squirrels and it started coming to him then realized he didn't have food so ran away. Something else we found out while we were in the museum looking at the Hayes family tree was that there are still some direct descendants that are still alive. Some of the boys who were the last to live in the Hayes home before it was donated are still alive and have come to the house and told stories of the house while they lived there. I guess there was a family reunion there not too long ago. I think the guide said last summer. Every Easter they have something called an egg roll on the grounds, I'm not entirely sure of the details of it but I am going to assume it is like it sounds. I remember hearing about it in the past but never paid attention to the details. After the museum, we ended up in Sandusky where we went and looked at the view of Cedar Point from one of the parks and we drove to Huron and then back to Sandusky and we went to the mall where we ate at a place called Cheers which despite the name looks nothing like the Cheers bar even though they used the Cheers logo. I was shocked to see how much they had in their mall. My husband found a store that had a lot of cool Star Trek merchandise including their uniforms and I guess a lot of the money from purchases goes to charity. I checked out the bookstore with my son. We were out pretty late and didn't get home until around eight because we had to go to the store and pick up a few things. It was a long day out but we really enjoyed ourselves. We have made it a point to try to get out on Sundays and do things with our son. We don't always spend money. Sometimes we go to parks or other free places. Last weekend we went to Dayton to the flight museum which is free. Our car is amazing on gas because it's a fairly small car and we can get pretty far on a tank of gas. The picture is of The Hayes home I took from the property before our tour.