This is the place

On August 4th I met up with some of my old college roommates Natalie and Laura and their children and headed to This is the Place, Heritage Park. Unfortunately we forgot to get a group picture, but we will just have to get together again to get it! It was pretty fun though. I had never been there before. From the bottom of the hill where you can see only the monument, its surprising to actually find out what is actually all up there. It reminded me of a miniature Nauvoo. With a train. The kids had fun though. There are a bunch of things for kids to do such as look for gold in the stream to turn it in at the bank for a piece of candy, I mentioned the train. What kid doesn't like to ride on a train. A play area with miniature houses. Pony rides, a petting area with sheep and goats. There are pioneer houses to tour, Crafts, pioneer chores and games that the kiddies can learn as well. Just bring good walking shoes.

The train ride through town

This is the school house. Kassidee wrote her own name on her slate.

The pioneers had their own alphabet that were symbols for sounds so that everyone could understand the same language even if they didn't speak english. This is Naomi and below her name is how they would have wrote her name if she were a pioneer in those days.

This would have been Kassidee's name

Laura and her boys at the leather imprint. This is where you can hammer an image into leather. The Nail had a metal image at one end. There were butterflys, smily faces, baloons, and so on.





This is Kassidee making her own candle. This was probably her favorite activity.
Natalie and her girls making candles

(Laura I stole pictures off you blog :) Thanks)