Last the best of all the game!

Ok so I waited until last to submit my entry on purpose.... who am I kidding....I'm just naturally last! Can I just say how much I loved that trip!!! I learned a ton and feel like I am so much more connected to the overland trail. Thank you Gene, Val, and Tim!!! To illustrate my point I will expound a bit...so the Monday after our trip I decided to take a backpack trip with some friends and hike Kings Peak (the highest peak in Utah). When I reached the top it was amazing. I looked out over the endless valleys and then something caught my eye... it was the plateau with the windmills on it right next to Fort Bridger! So right there on the top of King's Peak I told my friends the story about the fires on the bluff during the Utah War etc. Needless to say I am already applying all the great stuff from our trip into my daily activities:)

Aside from that randomness I am planning on using a lot of the wonderful lesson plans I received from you all. The strategies that I liked the most were the picture quadrants and the bio cube. Also when I got to Cody I bought a book on the Lewis and Clark expedition and it has a bio of each member of the expedition. Some wonderful person on the buss suggested that I use it in a wax museum. This is such a great idea. I have never seen or participated in a wax museum and so I think it will be quite experimental the first time but has the potential to be a truly amazing experience for the students.

I just wanted to say how much I loved seeing all of these places that I have read so much about. It really was the ideal way to experience the mormon trail. So thank you to Larry H. Miller and Zions Bank for making this possible....and again thanks to Gene for all the amazing commentary... if I can remember even a quarter of the things you taught us I will look like a genius , Val for the great games of Golf... of which I am now addicted, and Tim for being a good sport when Jared and I soaked him on the top of Big Mountain! Thanks to all of you all for making me feel welcome and a part of the group... this was definitely a highlight of my summer!