Albany Institute and Winter Camp Drop Off

Today we had to wait until about 3:00 to start up to Camp Fowler for the Winter Camp drop off so we headed to the Albany Institute of Art and History for the Victorian clothes exhibit. It was a lot of fun! And so pretty!

Wedding dress. All hand sewn

Wedding dress! They often chose colos so the dress could be worn again. If you wore white you were very well off.

Wedding dress

These were my favorites! 

Sleeve detail on one of the dresses

Civil War uniform

I'm not sure you can read this but it explains how the lace was made on the dress below. They used a chemical reaction to create the design!

Detail of the lace

As you can see Maddie was all smiles when we left! She was the first to arrive. Normally we get there right at drop off time and the place is teeming with kids making us feel like we are late. This year we were a bit early and she was first! Timing is everything! So we hung around for a bit talking with Aunt Josey and Uncle Connor who will be running things the next few days. Mainly we discussed how they should've changed the name to "Mud Camp"!

We will pick her up on Wednesday at lunch!! More about her time there later.