Pioneer for a day...or more

I left the house this morning at 6am to drop my daughters off at a church Youth Conference. The theme this year is a pioneer re-enactment.

Everyone was supposed to dress in 19th century pioneer clothing. The picture above is one of our friends and a "Ma" on the trip. She and her husband took time off work to lead a group of 10 kids on the adventure.

When I dropped off my girls, they saw what they would have for transportation over the next three days. I took a picture of this handcart before they started filling it up.


There was a large pile of belongings to pack into each cart. My daughters' group had around 13 people and what looked like more stuff than could possibly fit into a handcart. Luckily their "Pa" is an engineer (and also a friend of ours). When I left them, he was busily figuring out how to pack everything (see below).

They will push and pull their carts about 5 miles/day over the next three days.