Okay well maybe it was just a replica of it all, but that does not sound quite as exciting!
We went to the Mud Island Riverwalk and Museum in Memphis. You take a Monorail (a train car that hangs from the bottom of a bridge). This takes you from the parking lot over to where the Mud Island Park is at.
When we got to the other side we went to the museum first. This is a very well planned museum. It was really cool! You get to get on a portion of an old steamboat and an old civil war boat complete with cannons and everything. It was neat the way it was set up and they even had it to where when you look over the side of the boat there was water. It was real enough that the boys were a little scared!
After the museum we went to the Riverwalk. This is very awesome. It is a complete replica of 1000 miles of the Mississippi River. It shows where is widens and narrows and turns and even the where the depths change. Throughout the 5 block walk they have it broken up by states and have maps of major cities on the river built into the sidewalk.
The boys spent several hours wading through the Mississippi River replica. They walked the entire 5 blocks while have "speed boat" races (they were each picking out leaves and racing them down the river), stopped to watch tugboats on the "real" Mississippi River, and whatever else their imaginations told them to do!
At the end of the river was a replica of the Gulf of Mexico. The guys got a paddle boat and went and paddled around the gulf! It is a 1 acre enclosure that holds 1.3 million gallons of water. There is also a little area that has a huge fountain. The boys went and waded around in the water around the fountain.
Unfortunately we did not think to take a camera so we did not get any pictures. We will be going back, with extra clothes for the boys (we spent the entire time trying to keep their clothes dry for the trip home) and a camera. It was well worth the $20 we spent to go to have a whole day of entertainment and WARN OUT BOYS when we left!
All of the pictures I used were from the Mud Island River Park website.
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