Just another boring Museum

I decided to take the kids to the Fort Douglas Museum this week. My Reserve unit was stationed there for 3 years, but I haven't gone to the Museum. We went inside and checked out all of the displays, including history of how the fort was established, and displays of soldiers life from the Civil War days to Present.

Bradley loved the guns and all the bullets.

Olivia wasn't as impressed. After looking at everything inside the building, we went outside and saw the really cool stuff. They had several artillery pieces including one from Germany that was brought back by US soldiers as a war trophy after WW2.


They had a Self Propelled Howitzer with a very large gun, several tanks including a Sherman from WW2.

They had a Huey Helicopter that had been in service since the Vietnam War where it had crashed twice. It was repaired each time and then went on to serve the Utah Air National Guard before being retired here. Bradley really liked the Cobra Attack Helicopter with the Rocket Pods on the sides.

Trip to the Copper Mine

I have been trying to think of some cheap fun things to take the kids to this summer. We went to Hill Air Force Museum a few months ago, and I plan on taking them to Fort Douglas Museum in a few weeks. We went up to Kennecott Copper mine and checked out the Visitor Center.

Both the kids thought it was pretty cool to see the big tire, and they couldn't believe when we looked into the mine and could see the actual trucks working. The mine is almost 2 miles across, and the trucks look like little toy ants from that far away.

After looking into the mine, we went into the visitors center and checked out all the cool displays. There were a lot of models of how a mine works, along with several samples of what each mineral looks like in it's raw state.

Bradley really liked the display that showed how Copper is used in just about everything from Cars, Airplanes, and Electronics. There is even Copper everywhere inside our house.

Well, we can check that one off the list. The kids really enjoyed it, and actually learned something.