Doctoring and Playing Tourist

Captains Log August 26 - Bill headed out this morning for a Dermalogist appointment to follow up on his leg.  While he was gone I did a load of laundry, baked cookies, Cranberry Dessert bars, put the new drawer latch on the broken drawer, replaced the icemaker water filter, and washed up all the dishes I dirtied and the breakfast ones – that’s Bill’s normal job!

I baked items to take to the cook out tomorrow and will make a batch of Brownie Brittle also.  I already made one batch yesterday and took it to Gina and Rick so they’d have their own to enjoy!  I did have about 6 cookies for us and 4 cranberry bars so in case we don’t beat the kids to the table Friday, we have a taste at home!

Bill called after his appointment and I sent him to the store for a couple of things to pick up on the way home.  We go through fruit like there’s no tomorrow.  

After lunch we played tourist for a while.  We started at a cemetery there Bill read Orrin Porter

Rockwell Headstone

Rockwell was buried in 1878.  He was Brigham Young’s bodyguard.  I have no idea how Bill knew that or why he wanted to see the grave but we went.  The information he had was sketchy so once we looked with no luck, he called the office of the cemetery and she text him maps.  Well, even with those we were not having any luck so he called back and she said she’d send someone to help us.  As soon as he hung up I found the marker.  It did not look like the one in the photo he found and the writing was on the opposite side.  A guy showed up in just a couple of minutes as he was working there in the cemetery.  He said that is one the graves he gets asked about often.  So we got photos and were off on our next chase!

Bill asked Rick last night where the immigrants crossed over the mountains and he told us it was over next to the zoo and there is a monument called “This is the Place”.  How doofy is that?  Well we headed there and at first we found a monument to the Native Americans in Rotary Park so we stopped and got photos

This Is The Place Monument

of that.  Then we turned around and discovered the This is the Place monument is HUGE and part of a complex called Heritage Park with a village you can pay to go in and a gift shop and Pioneer Center.  They have wedding there and other activities.  The grounds also host a monument to the Pony Express with a replica of the station that was once there.  The other monument is to the Mormon Battalion whose job it was to forge a trail from Santa Fe to California.  They only encountered one battle during the entire time.

After our excursion it was time to fight the traffic back to the campground!  It was not as bad as I expected as I really wasn’t sure how far we had roamed.

RV’s were coming in steady once we got home and I went to the office and had a

State Capitol and Arch where
Brigham Young's property started

conversation with the manager.   She was very nice and apologized as they are short staffed like very were else.  She said she totally understood and I was right that the sites should be checked she would get someone out to take care of it.  Well not long after I got back to the RV a guy shows up in his cart.  I went out to kinda show him what I was complaining about and he goes and gets a shovel.  How do you pick up trash 1-2 inches big that’s mostly paper or plastic, with a shovel?  I politely suggested pinchers would work best and he left on his cart and came back with pinchers and did a great job!

Dinner was easy!  Bill and I both had big pieces of chicken left from dinner last night so I made salads and nuked a bag of riced cauliflower and added butter and grated parmesan and dinner was ready!  We had our cranberry dessert bars for dessert!  Yum!