End of the Oregon Trail

While Melanie, Karl and Lindsey took Lauren to BYU this week, Spencer and Mason stayed with us. On Friday we drove south to Oregon City, Oregon (just out of Portland) to visit the End of the Oregon Trail Interpretative Center. We saw lots of interesting artifacts and pretended we were pioneers in 1842 traveling from Independence, Missouri to Oregon City.

The outside of the building is pretty interesting; it resembles a covered wagon.

There were interesting artifacts and storytellers who gave us the history of the trail. The journey even made us lose a few pounds! (Don't you think we look thinner?)

Once our wagon arrived in Oregon City, Spencer couldn't resist opening the door of the pretend outhouse (note the moon on the door) only to find Mason inside. Surprise!!