Day 2: Oregon Trail: “Let’s jist get goin’.”

History day today. Let’s learn about those who traveled 2,000 on the Oregon Trail.

Eaten alive by mosquitos at the Snake River.

Oregon Trail Interpretive Center. Asked the boys to act like a sheep herder. It was a little bit more ninja than sheep herder. It would be so hard to be a pioneer. There was hardship and grief in their faces (ok, I know they were only replicas… but still). They learned to tie on that bonnet, oh so tight!

I got many a good chuckle out of the pioneer’s diary quotes. Poor them! Waiting for their ‘promised land’ and they arrive and are very disappointed. There was one lone tree in the valley. And then an emigrant chopped it down for firewood. The weary and hot travelers were not very pleased about it.

Our family went and walked a little ways on the Oregon Trail. Tru’s balloon blew away. It was very sad for him. We would have died as pioneers. Oh wait – that’s not true! But boy-howdy it would have been hard. Liza was scared of the buffalo statue. Imagine the real thing! I’m so glad for those who came before who showed us that we, as a people, can do hard, hard things!