This is the Place State Park

On Tuesday I took my kids to This is the Place State Park with my mom. I was a little nervous that it would be too grown up for them, but we absolutely loved it there! We were there for about 5 1/2 hours and that was with half of there stuff being closed already for the fall season, we will definitely be going back. The kids all voted to go to the animal petting area first which was no surprise to me.Gavin riding Chocolate Chip. Whenever you ask him what we did there his first answer is always Chocolate Chip and if he sees pictures of the horse he remembers that name. I guess that means he liked it, huh!
Zack riding Dale. Sorry for the washed out picture.
Austin riding No Name. No that's not the horse's name, but we can't remember it so that's what we call him.
Austin so badly wanted them to eat the straw out of his hand, but they wouldn't stop eating out of the trough to eat it from him. It was funny to see his persistence though.
The goats did not want to let us leave and kept blocking the gates. My mom went and got some leaves to feed them and distracted the goats while we hurried and got out. Then a guy about a minute later thought he could hold all 3 goats at once, needless to say he let the goats out after all of our hard work. Austin roping the steer.
Zack showing his skills, he was pretty good!
Gavin could have cared less that he had the wrong end of the rope, he just thought it was fun to throw the rope.When we went to the schoolhouse we were surprised to see my cousin's daughter Madison was the teacher. It was fun being able to talk to her for a little bit.
Uh oh, Austin wearing the dunce cap.
This is the first of at least 4 times that we rode the train. I love that Zack is sticking his tongue out, I'm sure this will not be the only picture I have a son doing that.
Gavin panning for gold. I took Austin and Zack to the bathroom while we were doing this activity and asked my mom to watch Gavin. She was being like most grandma's just letting him have fun and he fell in the river a couple of times and got soaking wet, including his cast.
We all got rich and had a lot of fun panning for gold. The cold river felt so good in the hot sun!
The boys all had fun doing the pioneer children's chores. Austin especially liked learning how to milk the cows.
And we all had fun playing the games they played.
My cousin Holly also works there so it was fun to see her and she was nice and helped us walk on the stilts. That is so hard to do!
Getting the wool ready to go on the spinning wheel.
Isn't my mom brave; daring to hold that while Austin was hammering.
Then we went to the leather shop and they all got to make bracelets. Zack and Austin instead of wanting their names on them wanted Utah Utes with no prompting from me. Aaron was very proud!
We finished off our fun with getting ice cream cones and eating them while riding on the train one last time. They had ice cream on every possible body part and place on their body by the time they were done. That just means they are good, right?! I really don't want summer to end!