Kennecott

Number 25: Go to Kennecott Copper Mine

This is another that I just added.  Lexi is taking AP Geography next year so I am trying to find things to help her understand parts of the class as they learn out of the book next year.  Kennecott is one of those, as was the commercial diary farm at Manti Pageant.  So one day I went and got the kids and we drove up the Kennecott.  It is really incredible the operation they have up there.  The huge trucks look like matchbox cars.  It is hard to even comprehend how big it is as you are watching at the crest of the copper pit.  I always am amazed at the cool things we live around but don't ever really see.  There are more tourists at Kennecott and the Great Salt Lake than there is anywhere else in the Salt Lake Valley.  We don't take advantage of the things we have in our backyard that people come all over the world to see.  Anyway it was a fun couple hours.  We went and ate at McDonalds after and in about 10 minutes demolished 5 extra value meals.  Number 25: Kennecott, Check!

Manti Pageant

Number 11, Manti Pageant, Check.  A couple of years ago driving back from Oklahoma my mom wanted to go to the pageant.  Lexi and I were tired and just wanted to go home so we told her that we would go another year.  This was the year.  I figured it could be a family reunion.  My dad's best friend Rex Brown lives in Gunnison which is like 15 miles from Manti so that would be perfect to camp outside there house.  I didn't even realize he had such a nice lawn area or maybe we would have done it sooner.  To be honest the hardest thing is getting all the families to commit.  We Roberts' generally don't like to be tied down to anything and then can't just say alright let's go and just go.  I knew once we got everyone there it would be fun and everyone would have a good time, it is just getting them there.  So everyone drove down separately Friday night and set up camp.  Then Saturday we did a few activities and then toured the diary.  The adults grew up around diaries but the kids are 'city kids'.  It was fun to see how a huge commercial diary farm runs and the kids all got a chance to milk a cow and let the calves suck on their fingers.  Taunya, Rex's daughter, was our tour guide and really knew her business.   That night we went to the pageant.  Trevor saved up good seats up front while the rest of us ate turkey at one of the churches.  It was a great experience.  Some of the things that we fun was the pageant had just started and Dustin and Slayden had gone to get food and when they came back Slayden, who is 2, screamed...."We are back and we brought treats!"  He was so excited to have brought cotton candy to everyone.  Then Leah was pretty excited for the fire and Jesus.   The sweetest thing was Mason and Leah were sitting together and Leah was getting tired so Mason took off his jacket for Leah to have a pillow to lay on his leg.  When Leah went to sleep, somebody moved her on the ground with Mason's jacket.  It did get a little cold and poor Mason was shivering but he wanted Leah to have a pillow.  Finally somebody realized what had happened and got his jacket back to him and bundled Leah up with a blanket.  That is a sweet gesture of Mason to give his jacket up for his cousin. 

We got back to our camp and then in the morning "loaded her up Shell".  It was fun to be together as a family and watch the kids play together.  We had three friends, Danielle and her niece Hannah, and Lexi's friend Cami.  They were fun to have as well.  So I have planned a family reunion and attended the Manti Pageant.  Number 11, Check!