This is the Place and America Day

On the Fourth of July I decided that we would take a kid friendly hike behind This is the Place monument and then head across the street to the zoo. It was a good plan but when we got to This is the Place we saw the town (which I had never noticed before) and decided to head in there first. We got there about 10:30a.m. and we didn't leave until about 4:00 p.m. It was a blast and a half.

Sam had been there before with his class so when we walked through the gates he said, "let go do some chores!" ...

After the chores we went to the animal care area (that is what Sam called it) and he got to pet and play with some little sheep and goats, he got to ride a bull, and he got to ride a real horse! He was pretty excited about it all.

He got to make four crafts, he made an "America Day" necklace (that is what Sam calls the day). He made an Indian sand painting. He made a whistle. And he made a wooden star wind wheel. That was some serious crafting. We also played Crockett, played in the kid town, rode the train and Sam got to go to school and play some games with other kids. It was a great day!

When we were at the school. The teacher asked Sam if he wanted to stay in the school house or go ride the train. Sam said he would rather stay in school. We had such a wonderful day. When we left we grabbed some food and headed to Sugar House Park to camp out and wait for the fireworks.

Sam played at the park. I tried to convince him to sit down and take a nap but that was a no go. (it was obvious later that he would have been a happier camper if he had taken a nap but oh well ... the only problem happened when we were walking back to the car ... he told me he was going to sleep for a week!) We did lay on the blanket in the shade and played some fierce rounds of Go Fish. Later we went down to the bottom of the hill and watched people playing frisbee, after almosting hitting us three times one group invited Sam to come play. He loved it. When the sun went down we put glow in the dark items all over Sam. His ankles, wrists and around his neck. The people next to us called him the glow-in-the-dark-kid. The fireworks were amazing. We had a wonderful day.