By: Jaret

It was a beautiful day in 2071 in Okotoks.  I thought it was a good day to once again visit the Welch House.  My friend now lives there.  We are now both 78 years old.  I walked along the soft, padded sidewalks towards the 200 years old house.  As I got to the door, my 78 year old friend, opened it.  He invited me into to the house I had not been in since I was 7 years old.

As I walked into the house I was able to see all the house robots at work.  There were five of them.  The first one cleaned the rooms.  The second one made the food.  The third one walked the dog.  The fourth one did the laundry and the last one served the food and did the dishes.

We were hungry so the food robot brought us glow in the dark food to eat.  He brought us fizzy floats to drink.  We sat down to play an old fashioned game of Nintendo.  I don't know where my friend had kept this game for so long.  We had a great visit talking about the past and then I set off back home.

By: Dylan

In the year 2101 I will go back to the Welch House in Okotoks.  I will be 107 years old.  That means the house will be at least 207 years old.  It does not look like it used to at all.  It is now red and green. The roof is black.  It has lots of windows to catch the sun.  The trees out side the doors are much bigger now so it makes the house look smaller.  There is a shiny ramp that I can take to get into the Welch House.  It is still a museum.  It has all kinds of interesting "old" stuff.
There is a white microwave oven.  I haven't used one of those for at least fifty years!  There is a toaster.  Now I just have to open a container to get the perfect toast.  There is this big TV in the museum.  It is funny to see how much space it takes up.  My TV I always carry around in my pocket.  Mine is not only a TV but it is also a calculator and a computer.  It was fun to go back into the past at the old Welch House.

By: Tyler

In the year 2101 I will visit the old Welch House once again.  It is now a farm with a wind turbine on the roof so you can tell which way the wind blows and so the wind can heat the house.  The chimney is still made out of brick but the outside has more windows.  I wanted to go into the Welch House to see if it was very different from when I was a kid.  I walked up and tried the doorbell.  A small boy answered.  He was about the same age as I was the last time I visited the Welch House in 2001 when it was a museum.

We explored the house together.  Instead of stairs going up to the second floor there is just an escalator.   All you have to do is push a button and you are transported to the second floor.   Along the hallway there are four doors.  Each door takes you into another wonderful room.  The first door I explored took me into a room full of antique toys.  There were Beanie Babies, plastic dinosaurs, and Buzz Light Year stuff.  All the toys I played with when I was 7 years old.  The second door led me into the boys' bedroom.  His toys were all remote controlled or even voice activated.  There were space ships and stars twinkling in the roof.  Not glow in the dark stars but real stars projected onto his ceiling.  The room after that was his parents' room.  Instead of a normal bed they had an air bed.  It floated in the air wherever the parents wanted to sleep.  The bathroom was the last room.  If you wanted a bath you could push one button, if you wanted a shower you could push another button.  The temperature would adjust to your voice.

Downstairs I discovered an extremely modern kitchen with robots doing all the work.  The living room had the most comfortable furniture that was soft and warm to touch.  The Welch House was not at all like it is today.  But the Welch house  now not at all like it was 100 years ago either!
 

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