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....