San Diego Trip Part 4: Mormon Battalion Museum

Sometimes on vacations it is hard to find good activities to do on Sundays so that we can help our family still have a "sacred day".  In San Diego there is a neat museum called the Mormon Battalion Center.  We were able to visit there on Sunday and learn more about these pioneers.
Here is Taylie checking out a covered wagon.



Cole, Jaymon, Dyllon, and Coleton in the wagon.  That would have been a rowdy bunch stuck in a wagon for hundreds of miles!  No wonder the pioneer kids had to walk most of the time - the parents needed them to burn off their energy somehow!  When our family is all traveling together for a long distance in our Suburban I sometimes wish we could make the kids get out and walk (in fact I think I have threatened this more than once!).  :)  



Taylie and T.J.

Janna and Dyllon

Grant

Janna and Taylie trying out being "wash maids"

All the kids dressing up to join the Mormon Battalion

I just loved Cole in this hat!  Too cute!

T.J. checking out the guns (my brothers would be so proud!).  :)

Everyone got to try panning for gold and the kids were able to keep a piece if they could find one (which they all did).  The kids were not as excited, however, when they found out that the gold was really Fools Gold.  :)

T.J. and Coleton

Ryon trying out the old water pump.

This museum had so many fun activities and was one of the best museums we have ever taken our kids to.