A Day At The Mine
For a quick Memorial Day activity, we decided to head up the canyon and visit the Kennecott copper mine. I hadn’t been up there since my eighth birthday so I was interested in seeing how it had changed in the years between. For those that don’t know, Kennecott is the largest open pit mine in the world and can actually be seen from space (I assume they mean without magnification, but who knows).
We went up with Grandma, Grandpa, Jessica, Wally, Will and Georgia. I’m not really sure what the kids thought of the mine itself, but they seemed to enjoy the visitors center at least. Will was especially excited about all the toy tractors they had on display. Luckily they were all contained within plexiglass displays or else Will would have a tractor fest and played with every single one of them. It’s fun to see kids get so excited about such simple things and it makes me wish I could still experience that level of excitement just by seeing a few shelves full of tractors. Anyway… here’s some pictures of our excursion.
Those trucks are FREAKIN’ HUGE!!
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