Our morning started off with a breakfast of champions – flapjacks! We ate at Flapjack’s Pancake House (actually we ate there a few times!) The food was amazing and I loved the fact they used local maple syrup (“from a tree 10 miles from here” is what the server told us!) and they also use local, cage free eggs! Seriously, amazing stuff is made there!
We almost didn’t stop at Clark’s Trading Post, but at the recommendation of others we did and I’m so glad. We had a blast! Tickets were $19 and included everything! So if you are looking for a good, affordable family trip this is it!! (The only thing not included was the segway tours.)
We started off on the train ride and rode into the Wolf Man’s territory. The story goes that Wolf Man was an old miner who was searching for Unobtainium. He’s been searching for a long time! He was worried that people on the trains were coming to find his precious Unobtainium so he tries to scare off the folks on the train.
The train stops to listen to Wolf Man and you see his home, his mine and his traps. He speeds along side of the train in his car.
On the way back, we are told if you squint one eye and point at him and yell “Scram you old Goat!” it really gets him going. That was all Josh needed to hear! He thought that the Wolf Man was really awesome.
After our train ride we saw the bear show. I’m bummed my photos didn’t come out well! Who knew that bears love ice cream?!? The bears did a great job as they played basketball, rode scooters and did other fun tricks!
Clark’s Trading Post is like a museum! They have a collection of just about everything old and neat. We wandered around looking at all of the neat things making our way over to the water bumper boats. Josh, Andy and I all got in our own boats. Andy and I found out quickly why we were the only adults in boats! It must be some kind of kid code because the second we got in all the kids stopped squirting each other and came after us! I’m not sure if it’s because we sit up higher than the kids do so we are easier to hit or if it was because we had a small army after us but we were more soaked than all the kids combined! We didn’t last long, but Josh stayed in forever! I’m pretty sure he would have stayed all day if we would have let him. (Water Bumper Boats are now on his Christmas list. Thanks Clark’s Trading Post!)
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