Hardware Ranch

Last weekend we made the drive up to Hardware Ranch in Hyrum. It's about two hours from our house, and part the drive is through a winding canyon road. I thought Isaac was going to get carsick because he got that glassy look in his eyes and was asking why the road kept going back and forth. But we finally made it and went up to the museum to buy our tickets for the sleigh ride out to see the elk. It's a small museum, but they had all kinds of native Utah animal skins and skulls. Perfect for a 3 year old boy. There was this stuffed mountain lion that he wasn't too sure of though. He thought it was a real at first, but then he was okay with it.

The Clydesdale horses that pulled the sleigh were HUGE. The driver told us that together they weighed more than 4200 lbs. Wow. I'm pretty sure that's more than my car weighs. It's no wonder these big animals can pull a sled with about 15 people on it.

So we hopped on the sled and they took us out to the elk. There was probably about 200 or 300 elk out there. It was really neat to see them so close up. Isaac was concerned that he was going to get pooped on. I have no idea where he got that. But I assured him that if we stayed in the sled that we would be safe from the elk poo.