For Memorial Day we went to This is the Place Heritage Park. It was a great day, and it wasn't even crowded!
We started off with a nice train ride
Maybe it's just cuz this was my first time going to a petting zoo, but these animals are probably the cutest I've ever seen!!
Funny European cows
This is Olive, the pygmy goat. She is three months old and SO. DANG. CUTE.
Lambs are just as soft as you'd think they'd be. I could've just pet them all day... ;)
This is Penelope, the pregnant pig. She either waddled short distances or didn't move. It's weird, pigs have very coarse hair.
All of these lambs suddenly came up to me and tried to eat my shirt
This baby pig is so cute. If you rubbed her side, she would lay down for you and let you pet her belly.
She also liked to get really close to my camera.
And eat Caroline's shoe.
Olive decided to steal my mom. She wouldn't leave her side.
Caroline was a little freaked out by the sudden attention from these two goats.
And then they moved from Caroline to Mom and tried eating her watch. A lady who was there told us that she had been there with her family before and had turned around to find one of the goats eating her skirt. So glad that didn't happen to me!
I love ducks. :)
After visiting the ducks I came back to find Olive sleeping by my mom. She had apparently been there the whole time.
Shortly after Mom got up Olive woke up, very unhappy to find her foster mother missing/
You see that silver bin? These guys carried it over and started dumping tons and tons of chicks on the ground.
Again, the funny cows. We loved them. :)
And of course no pioneer village is complete without oxen... (David was very fond of pointing into the pen and labeling it as "bullcrap")
And reindeer. Which, by the way, have hollow hair to provide insulation. And their hooves are separated into two giant toes, which help them to not sink in the snow and create a funny noise so the other reindeer can find them.
After the petting zoo we went to the schoolhouse. Caroline apparently hasn't learned her ABCs yet.
And David got in trouble for talking to his neighbor. Teachers would make students stand like this for hours. Sounds miserable!
Brigham Young's home. It's beautiful!
We also decided to ride the train for little kids. We were a little bit too excited. Especially Caroline.
We stopped by the Carpenter's shop and learned how to use all their old tools and then found this nice "only slightly used" coffin outside!
I think it's so cool that they have people in period clothes just walking around the village!
They had a sweet fire engine.
Our ancestor, Lewis Barney, was one of the first pioneers who arrived in the Salt Lake Valley, and we found his name on this plaque!
This monument is way bigger than I expected it to be. It's way cool, it has statues of lots of different people and gives quick biographies.
Watch the pig's tail when David tries to touch it.
