No running journal today, but it was a great day. We took the kids to the American West Heritage Center this morning. I hadn’t been there in nearly twenty years, since I was a USU undergrad and escorted a group of kids from the university lab school on a hayride at the farm.
I can’t recommend the AWHC highly enough if you are a history buff like me. The AWHC is a working farm themed around the year 1917, and everything is as authentic as they can possibly make it in 2010, from the sausage making in the summer kitchen, to the blacksmith shop, to the chamber pots underneath the beds in the farmhouse.
There is plenty of extremely cool stuff at the American West Heritage Center:
An atmospheric entrance
A blacksmith shop
A mini-train that circles the farm
A petting zoo
Caroline checks out the Victrola. It still works.
Communication, 1917 style
Authentic wall decorations
The original owners of the property where the AWHC sits
A broom making demonstration
I’m still hurting quite a bit, so after a few hours I was done. I came back to the motel and crashed for the rest of the afternoon while The Wife continued the tour with the girls.
Tonight Susan and I went back to the Heritage Center for the Haunted Hollow, their western themed spook alley. I don’t think I’ve ever taken The Wife to a haunted house, so we’re talking at least twelve years since I escorted a young lady to one. I kept looking over at the beautiful blonde attached to my left hand. It was a little disconcerting to realize that I have such a beautiful daughter, and to realize that she will be going to places with boys on actual dates in a few years. Susan is a lot of fun to hang out with, and she made some interesting observations about the college kids on a date who were in our group.
Susan also saved my butt at the end of the Haunted Hollow by knowing about the horse drawn wagon that could take us back to the parking lot. My knee was really throbbing by the end of the walk. Susan saved the day.
So the Haunted Hollow was basically the end of our Cache Valley Vacation. We’ve got a few things left to do tomorrow, but then we head home and back to reality. Hopefully I haven’t torn a tendon in my knee. This week will be interesting.
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