What a Bonanza!

Tuesday, August 27, 2007
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It was COLD today! Really quiet surprising. We were in North Dakota now and lemme tell ya, it was not a good first impressions. Donning capris and sweatshirts we headed to our destination: Bonanzaville.
I know, it sounds like a hokey tourist trap. And no, it has nothing to do with the TV show. My first thought when I saw the place was “Oh no, this is gonna be interesting.” And I was right. The place was fascinating!
Bonanzaville(makes you laugh doesn’t it?) represents the time period in which the Bonanza farms boomed big in the U.S. Men bought thousands of acres cheap land from the government and they put it to a wonderful use: they grew food. Ok, I just read the paragraph and I sound like a tour guide. I have been reading way to many historical signs.
Bonanzaville consists of over 50 buildings, which were moved from their original location. It was mainly a little town. In each building they had hundreds and thousands of artifacts from the time period. They had houses, church, school, blacksmith, fire department, jail, post office, general store, dining hall, courthouse and any other building you could imagine.
They also had a gigantic warehouse full of old airplanes. That was cool. But something was even cooler. Another warehouse was full of antique cars! They had a handful of Ford Model T’s, an old Dodge pickup truck (that was flipping cool), and lots of old sports cars. But one of the most wonderfully awesome car there was a bright blue 1958 Thunderbird! It was so awesome! I took like a million pictures of it, so don’t worry, you’ll be seeing it.
It was utterly remarkable all the stuff they had. It boggled your mind. For example, when they moved the drugstore they kept almost every single piece of merchandise that were in the store at the time. They have shelves full of everything you would see in that time period (this was somewhere in the 1880’s by the way).
The place needed some work, they didn’t have very much staff, but you could tell it was a lot of work. Imagine trying to preserve thousands of antiques that are hundreds of years old. Difficult huh? Moreover, the artifacts were in log cabins or old buildings, they weren’t under sealed glass with temperature control.
We stayed in Bonanzaville all day then headed to the Ponderosa for dinner (joking, joking, that would be overkill). We stopped at the store and the Laundromat. We needed food and clean clothes. We then headed to our next stop, which I will reveal to you tomorrow. HAHA! I miss you all a lot!

SMILES!
~Morgan~

P.S. There’s this new thing on the blog site that you can do. It’s called COMMENT. It’s perty easy to figure it out, you just do this thing called TYPING. ~M.~