This Is The Place

Last week we went on a field trip with M's preschool to This is the Place Heritage Park in Salt Lake. It is a living history park with original pioneer buildings that have been relocated to the mouth of Immigration Canyon and set up as a little town. You can go inside all of the buildings and visit with people dressed up and playing their part as residents of the town.

It was a little cold and three school buses showed up at the same time as us, which worried us at first but actually turned out great because they had a lot of stuff opened for the schools that aren't usually open this time of year and a lot more demonstrations going on than normal. We had packed a picnic lunch and spent most of the day there.

Food Network was also there and filming a series on Food Trucks,
so we had to wait for a few minutes before they would let us in.

Our first stop was to the Hospital/Quilt Museum. The girls liked the quilts but were confused by the displays of medicine bottles and old medical tools. Especially when we tried to explain how they would use the tools to make their own medicine.

Everyone's favorite activity was the train ride. It goes all the way around the park and the conductor tells you all about the buildings, plants, and history of the park. It was really interesting and the girls loved riding on the open air train.

Waiting for the train to leave.

Riding the Train

One of the original pioneer cabins that has been relocated to the park. I believe they said a couple raised their 9 children in this one-room cabin.

There were a lot of baby animals in the barn. The kids loved that they were allowed to pet, pick up, hold, and even try to feed any of the babies.

Baby chicks.
M would only hold the yellow ones because she said the black ones bite.

Vi loved the bunnies

M loved the baby sheep.
All of the girls would squeal and laugh when the baby sheep would start to Baa.

The last thing we saw was a presentation by a Mountain Man. He showed the girls all of his pelts and talked about how the Mountain Men, Indians, and Pioneers would use animal skins to make shoes, bags, clothes, and blankets. Oddly enough, right after this we saw some deer grazing in a field right next to the park.

It has been so cold lately that we were very happy to have some nice weather for a fun day out with friends exploring a little bit of history.