Winter Quarters

Most important - Brunch to start our trip off.  When you are in unfamiliar places, be prepared to have a picnic!

Can you imagine our family taking the place of this family pulling this handcart?

Thanks Mom!  for the creative "Passports" which helped us find all the interesting sites.

Just a touch of home.  Julia Ann Shumway was my Great Great Gandfather's (Charles Shumway) first wife who died and was buried in Winter Quarters along with their daughter Harriet.

The statue overlooking their child which they have just buried.  There were approx. 300 buried in this cemetary of which most were children. 

The stain glass windows on the Winter Quarter's temple were amazing!

We're grateful to be striving to be an eternal family!

We felt so lucky and blessed to be at the same place as our good friends the Barnharts!  We were so glad it worked out for us to meet up on this one day. 

The boys were able to dress up like pioneers. 

The sister missionaries were wonderful and kept the kids attention so well during the visitor center tour.

If you look close you can see an odometer behind the big wagon wheel, this is how they kept track of how far they had travelled. 

Just by placing one little rock under the wheel of the wagon, it became very difficult to pull the wagon.