Salt Lake City

We spent our first day in Salt Lake at This is the Place heritage park,  kind of like a mormon Williamsburg, but a bit smaller.  We could have seen so much more but we ran out of time!  We started with Brigham Youngs pink forest home.

This was next to the trunk room,(aka old fashioned closet)  and loom room/dance hall where they made fabric.  Yikes.  Glad I have a fabric store, but period costumes make me squeal with delight! 

We did learn why they say it will cost you and arm and a leg, cause portrait painters charged per limb, and why you need to min your p's and q's, typesetting is a tough job.

The kids got to try a few crafts, pan for gold, and stamp leather. They also rode tiny trains. 

 Karl fell asleep whiles the kids were panning for gold.

We also got to go with friends from Syracuae who moved to Utah.

Pony express monument from the 2002 Olympics,  did you know it took riders 10 days to ride across the country at a gallop,  or that the pony express only lasted about 18 months? Yah, me neither.