Today we woke up and went to Kennecott Copper Mine. The kids were fascinated about the minerals they were getting out of the mine. Sam loved watching all of the huge trucks, especially the large scooper that could fit a truck in it's shovel. When we got back out of the visitor's center, Sam saw one down in the mine and pointed it out, "Hey Mom! There's the truck from the movie."

After the copper mine, we went to the Great Salt Lake, which the kids had all been wanting to go there the whole trip. The Salt Lake is down so far, however, that we had a half mile hike till we got to the water. Sam, lost a flip flop in a hot mud hole and flipped out, and that's where it all started.

By the time we got to the water's edge, Mary was having a heart-attack over all the sand flies at her feet (if she'd gone out further into the water, they would have stopped). Rachel was distraught with how the salt water was stinging her legs, and Sam couldn't quite recover from the hot mud hole.

I sent them all back to the beach and took Ruth and Moroni with them back towards the car. I left Joseph and Ben with Grandma to have fun in the lake. After we started our trek back, I noticed that Cherstin was working her way back with her two kids. I went back to lend support and sent Rachel on with everyone else. I ended up walking back with Moroni and Emmett. I had glimpses of the pioneers just trying to make it across the hot plains while watching their children up ahead of them carrying on.

I wish we could say that we did something really fun and cool afterwards, but we came home, showered, had dinner and got ready for the sabbath. hehe The good news is that it was a memorable experience. Ben enjoyed the Great Salt Lake and even got to float in it.

Good news: we survived!!!