Today was kind of a filler day. I set my alarm for 5:30 so I could get up with Uncle Roy and go with him to work. I actually set 4 alarms to make sure I'd wake up. I slept through them all…. I woke up at 7:15, much to my dismay, and sprinted to the shower. I guess I made it out in time cause Uncle Roy didn't look particularly rushed. So we left for his work and I met his coworker's yada, yada… After that we headed for the First Ladies Museum. We actually went into the wrong building, as there's the house that Ida McKinley & her husband lived in with her sister and her husband, and then there's the actual museum. The tour starts at the museum and then moves to the house. All in all it was a fantastic tour. It starts out explaining about women who have won the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which is the highest civilian award in the US. It then moves to the house where another guide took us around the house, explaining things about Ida McKinley's life.

After the McKinley house, we grabbed some pizza then went to the McKinley Memorial. Let me just tell you, boy, did he get ripped off. The only reason he gets people to his memorial is so they can run up and down the steps and around the oval median that separates the drive ways up to the memorial (which, according to the sign, four times around it is a mile). He also has to share his library with the history of Stark County, a paper mache fat laughing lady, a desolate looking western 1800's town remake, a water conservation center, and a mini children's science museum. I'm sorry, but the dude got totally ripped. There wasn't even a library, not that we saw anyways. He did, however, have a swinging pendulum that knocked over a wooden block every hour and a planetarium, which I think would be cool to have in my memorial library if I, too, were a dead president.

Things I learned today: A) President McKinley was assassinated (I was only taught of Lincoln and Kennedy…) B) the highest award that may be given to a citizen is the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and C) McKinley got totally ripped off with his memorial library.