Mormon Battalion Time

This week we ventured out to visit Old Town, specifically the Mormon Battalion Museum. As most of you know the Church just renovated the museum, and man is it different. It is super high tech, and actually quite cool. Its like they took Harry Potter, Dances with Wolves, and Davy Crocket, put them in a blender, and poof...the Mormon Battalion. They had pictures that were alive, vibrating boxes, free old style pictures, panning for gold, and fiddling. Ellie held out through most of it, and loved panning for gold. All in all I think we found two gold nuggets and maybe another speck of gold. Also at the Mormon Battalion they had computers where you could look up your ancestors. We had a family member, Captain James Brown, who was part of the battalion. We got to see a picture of him and read all about him. He was key in helping to establish Ogden, Ut. I took some good pictures of Ellie, but I haven't loaded them onto my computer yet. I'll get them on soon enough.

JEM