This Is The Place Heritage Park

As we were leaving

Kira riding Apple the pony

This is the Place Heritage Park was a fun place.  They had a little town set up like a pioneer village.  There were lots of pioneer activities.  The Native American show was really impressive.  The kids enjoyed making arrowhead necklaces with the dancers.  We ate homemade donuts, they were delicious.  They also enjoyed stamping leather, and got to see shark skin.  They also worked in a printing press.  It was fun to learn where the terms upper case and lower case came from.

Seth riding  Honey the pony

The kids with the Native American dancers

The printing shop keeper showed us the case the letters were kept in.  The capital letters were kept in the "Upper Case", and the little letters were in the "Lower Case".  He also told us where mind your p's and q's came from, because often the apprentice would put them in the wrong slot.  Kira absolutely loved panning for gold.  Mori and I learned that the term baby sitting came from the mom sitting the leg of her chair on the babies dress as she did her needle work and the baby would have that radius to play.  We rode a train, but Gaby is smarter than the average bear.  When the train pulled up she said, "That train has wheels, and no tracks...so really it's no train at all."  Thanks for ruining it for me sis!  They milked a cow.  Ben made friends with a nanny goat.  They were trying to wean her from her babies, and she was absolutely miserable.  Ben with his admiration for mammals tried to cheer her.  He stood at the gate and chirped his kind words to her.  I think he left her a happier goat.  Seth could have watched the blacksmith's for hours.  I could hardly pry him away.  It was interesting to see the one room cabins relocated from all over the state of Utah. Many families raised double digits of kids in those tiny, tiny places.  We are so very spoiled!!!!!  I loved a talk by Julie Beck where she said something to the effect of ,"Our pioneer ancestors did not give up everything they  knew, and all of their comforts and family to come across the plans and risk their lives so we could have bigger shopping malls, and better pedicures."  I think sometimes we really do try to amuse ourselves to death.  If it's not fun or easy we aren't going to do it!  Why did they give their all?  What did they want so badly for their future generations that they were glad to give up everything to better us?  I remember a good sermon I listened to my brother Robert give several years ago.  He said something to the effect of, "We aren't here to have mansions, and retire from our labors.  Our mansions are in heaven, and our job here is to work!"  It's true!  Heavenly Father needs each of us, and sometimes the work isn't pretty or easy!