This is the Place

Sunday, for our family home evening, Jon did a wonderful lesson on the story of the pioneers and the "Miracle of the Seagulls." The next day, we decided to take the kids on a field trip to visit "This is the Place" in Salt Lake City, which is a restored and recreated living community memorializing Utah's pioneers.

This is the Place monument

Here is a map of the village, it was actually pretty big, and very very cool.
I loved it!

We were able to do and see lots of things in the village. On they day we went, they had baby animals out and about in a petting zoo where the kids could go in, pet, and hold different baby animals. They also got to go on a pony ride.

In the village, there were lots of activities for the kids to do to experience a glimpse of the pioneer life.

Julien worked at Deseret News and printed an article.

Logan helped carve the wheel of a hand cart.

We each made our own candle and candle holder.

Here is a final product of Julien and Logan's candle and candle holder.

Other activities included leather stamping, puppet making, and many many more.

One of the funnest shops we went to was the barber shop: Where Alex got shaved, Julien got a tooth pulled out, Logan got a leech put on him, and my dad got his blood drawn. Boy am I glad I live now versus then!

Alex and my dad pulling a hand cart.

We were able to visit several pioneer homes, one of which was Brigham Young's. Julien, Logan, and Alex got to shake Brigham Young's hand also, and hear him tell stories about his life.

"This is the Place" had also just opened an Indian village, and we were able to visit it. The kids even got to take home an arrow head.

Here is Julien relaxing his legs while getting a shoulder ride from Raphael after a long day of walking.

Going to "This is the Place" was a wonderful activity where we got to experience, and understand more of the pioneers life, and appreciate them more. It was a very beautiful day!