The Stapley Family

The Stapley Family

Monday, November 19, 2007

Oregon Trail Bananza


We went to Baker City last Saturday. We went to see a museum that people have been telling us is so neat. We got there and it was closed for the season. So we went to small city above Baker City to see the steam engine. We got there and the Engine and Drudger was closed for the season. So we ate some pie to drowned our sorrows. We saw plenty of deer on the drive so we felt it wasn't a complete loss. So we started home when on the way out of the mountains we got stuck in a real live Cow Drive and the kids loved to see the small dogs boss the big fat cows down the street. Finally the cowboys/girls told us to drive through the cows and they will move for us. As you can see they gave us some resistance. (sorry for the sideways pict. thought I could move it around) As we left Baker City we saw a old hotel that was the largest hotel from SLC to Seattle in the 1800's (Syd didn't like the hotel because it was haunted said the owners.) As we got near the freeway out we saw another sign for another museum. We thought what have we got to lose so we went to the Oregon Trail Interpretive Museum where we only had 45min. to go through before it closed. It was neat and the kids learned about how much you can bring on the trail. Which is very little. But we did get some shots of the kids on the real wagon davits of the Oregon Trail.

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