Bonnie Springs

On Saturday we went out to Bonnie Springs by Red Rock Canyon.  It's  a replica of an old ghost town with a petting zoo and a train ride.
When we pulled off towards Bonnie Springs there was a bunch of wild burrows that came right up to your window.  I'm guessing quite a few tourists ignored the signs saying a $500 fine if you feed the wild burrows but it worked out for us since the kids got to pet them and we didn't even have to break the law and feed them....Kamri was a bit nervous but Hayes loved it.

We made it just in time to catch the train ride from the parking lot to the station and get in for the Melodrama and the shooting and hanging dramatization.  Walking through the replica mine and the petting zoo was the biggest hit for our family.

Hayes went around touching the horn on any animal, he felt so brave.

The deer were so friendly, you could pet them but they also liked to nibble at your clothes!

Lyla enjoying being carried everywhere.

Hayes & Kamri LOVED that the deer were nibbling at Hayes' shirt.  Hayes realized on the way home that it had nibbled a hole in his shirt!  Luckiliy, Bracken made him change into an older shirt when he got dressed in the morning!

Maybe I need to get one of these for our house....

 They must have been talking about President's day in Kindergarten because Hayes threw out all these facts we had no idea he knew. On Saturday morning Bracken and I were trying to sleep in while our early riser Hayes was sitting on the bed talking to us.  He grabbed a $1 bill that was sitting on my nightstand and said, this is George Washington he was the first president of the United States and he is also on the quarter.  Then he told us Abraham Lincoln is on the five dollar bill and the penny.  I asked him if he knew who President Lincoln was.  His response: Duh! He was the 16th president of the United States.  So we asked him who the president is now and exasperated at the easiness of the question, he said Obama!  Then Bracken gave him a toughie. What number of President is Obama? Hayes asked when Lincoln was born so Bracken told him he was the President in the 1860's. Then Hayes guessed 45th. A lucky guess but Bracken and I were blown away that he was that close. 44th!  And here I thought they were just tracing letters in kindergarten...

 Jill this post is for you. Since you called me out on my lazy blogging  I put pictures up. Now I'm going to start getting after you to get posting again!