Vacation in your own backyard

We have been thinking about where we should vacation. We have decided that Germany, Alaska, Washington D.C., The Czech Republic, these are all places we are interested in spending time and money. Since time is not on our side this summer, and those places are not an option in the next couple of weeks, we have decided to vacation in our own city. We are taking time to go do all the things we never do, but mean to. Today was day one: We started with William's piano lesson and then went about a mile east to "This is the Place Heritage Park". We have been there once before, and it was fine, but they have made some improvements and this time was a lot of fun. The kids enjoyed making crafts and doing activities from the 1800's.




There was a train ride, a pony ride, another petting zoo (see post below), a basket making craft, a leather tooling craft, a cookie, a cup of ice cream, a miniture pioneer village playground, and many, many, many cabins and houses to tour. We weren't planning on staying as long as we did, but we were all having fun and hung out the better part of the day. We shall see what day 2 of our vacation brings.