Ophir- Labor Day Weekend

    There's a little old mining town just after 5 mile pass off the road to Tooele that we've discovered to be a fun place to camp. The boys have been hunting there for a couple of years and this Labor day we pulled the trailers up and camped out for the weekend while the boys hunted. Alli and Cam brought their girls and Ben and Chelsea came as well as Jordan and Kirk so we had lots of cousins to play with.
    We camped right next to the creek and the kids had a grand time playing in the water. Wyatt loved riding his balance bike basically all over the place. One night I had just changed him into his PJs and he rode down the hill into a mud puddle. He was covered in mud and we had to wipe him off and change his clothes. Cam showed the kids how to makes bows and had brought some arrows that they could shoot. We also had fun riding the four wheeler through the water and around the trails.
    The first day we were there it was just me and the kids while the boys hunted so we drove the four wheeler down to the town museum-which consists of several of the old houses that have been preserved, some were moved, others remained where they originally were. It's always fun to get a little bit of history and the kids were on the lookout for rattlesnakes. After we were done, I couldn't get the four wheeler to start and was dreading having to walk a couple of miles back up the canyon with two kids...but luckily there were a couple of locals that helped me get it started. It was something silly like, I wasn't in neutral..
     It's a fun little spot and I wouldn't mind making it a tradition to camp up there. Not too far away, but so pretty and the kids loved it.