Spring Break in Utah--Day 2--This is the Place Monument

ok--I know I'm way behind, but I feel like I've barely had time to breathe, let alone sleep (averaging about 4-5 hours per night) the last few weeks. So, finally, here is the rest of our trip!

After temple square we went to the This Is the Place monument.  I had seen this website and the place looked amazing.  As much as the kids love history I figured this was a slam dunk (plus a train ride for my train obsessed 2 year old)...perfect.  We went April 1st....I figured we were well into spring season and was excited to see everything.

When we got there we found out that spring doesn't start until April 16th and that there wasn't much open.  Since we were already there (and we wouldn't be able to come back on the 16th) we decided to see what we could.

First the train ride--Aaron loved this--it was nice to see the whole park, but it was very obviously closed--almost nothing we saw was open.  We did talk with a nice family (the only other ones we saw the whole time we were there).  A grandma and 4 of her grandkids.  They told us about the "park" and how to get to it.

Another train at the park---Aaron was so excited, until he discovered that the track was "broke".  We kept asking him to drive the train and he would look out the window and say "track broke"--really how could we expect him to drive a train without any track to go on????

I think he was hoping for more track behind the train--this is him discovering "track broke" here too....I think he wondered how the train could get here with no track to drive on!

This might have been the highlight of the time here--a white bunny that the kids chased for about 20 minutes.  Thank you little bunny for letting my kids chase you and drive you crazy.

After the park we went to the two houses that were open--a small church and a little one-room house....no people displaying skills of pioneer days, no Indian Village with teepees to look at, not really much of anything....oh well.

We did get to see the monument which I had never seen in person before, so that was nice.  I would really like to come back here sometime when it is open.....I've heard very good things--we were just a couple of weeks too early!