Mountain Meadows

One thing that has been on my list to see and experience is the site of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Mom and Dad were gracious about taking us out there even though it was an unusually cold day. The pictures are from the momument at the site. Something like 140 people lost their lives there and it is still controversial about what happened. You have to grieve fo those who died and also for those who followed orders to take their lives. I'm sure this will all get sorted out somewhere but it does make you stop and think.



Next we headed over the mountain on a dirt road, we stopped at this historical farm, the Baker Place which was cool. Getting back in Big Red to continue down the road we realized very quickly that we had a problem with out brakes and that we probably wasn't going anywhere. A very nice guy and his wife stopped to help us (probably the one and only other truck on the road that day) and we limped it into the outskirts of Cedar City where the brakes completely locked up ON THE RAILROAD TRACKS! We were able to get it moved thanks to the masterful driving of my hubby, and thank goodness Karen and Len had made it back from SLC and could come and rescue us. What a day, it reminded me of being a kid when everytime we set out the car broke down. I still get queazy thinking about drinking warm Dr. Pepper....

Scenes from a Western Adventure

Since, I am so lame at posting lately I'll upload a bunch of photos from the last trip to Hurricane. Dan and Jill took us on a 4 wheeler trip that pretty much lasted all day. We went south from our house WAY past the Honeymoon trail to the Temple trail. Then looped up the mesa and had lunch. Next we were off to find Antelope Cave. Lucky for us that someone was already inside, so we climbed down in there too. I had heard about this cave all my life so it was great to finally see it. It's very large even though part of the roof had caved in and it went back in for a long ways. We didn't have flash lights so we stuck close to the entrance.



Next it was down over the mesa on the Honeymoon trail, that is one scary piece of road. They say that in the heyday they used to walk down the trail and tie a pair of horses or oxen both to the front of the wagons and on the rear. I'm thinking that if I had been alive back in those days, I would have wanted to be married and had that marriage consumated before risking my life getting down the mountain, but what do I know...The view was spectacular but I didn't get a decent shot so I guess I'll just have to go again next time.

Enjoy the pictures!