After getting completely soaked at the closing of Sea World, we headed over to the San Diego Mormon Battalion Historic Site. We looked a little worse for the wear, but the sister missionary from Idaho Falls who gave us the tour was very understanding. Scott and I had never been there and a couple of years ago when I was attending National PTA Convention in San Diego, a group of us went to Old Town San Diego for dinner and a tour. To our disappointment, it was closed for remodeling and we could only see the outside. Brian got to visit on the last day in his mission because the Carlsbad Mission has a tradition of taking missionaries there just before they go home. He told us it was all high-tech and cool, so we were interested to see it. It is very well-done and interesting and we even saw our neighbor, Marvin Payne, portraying one of the characters in a moving photo, Harry Potter-style. During the presentation, one of the tour members is called up to get dressed in typical Mormon Battalion gear, so Brian volunteered. Or maybe we volunteered him. Anyway, here he is as a Mexican War-era soldier.
The story of the Mormon Battalion is quite interesting, and if you’d like to read more about one of the longest infantry marches in US military history, click here.
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