Donner Party Supplies and Package Goods

Welcome Future Minions! True story: my parents live in the midwest and drive out to California to see my sister every summer or so. They drive from roadside attraction to roadside attraction, never passing up a looksee at the giant ball of lint or the museum of circa 1939 farming implements. One night my mother calls me. They are going to see the Donner Pass the next day. I say to my mom "Get me a snowglobe at the gift store." My mother laughs. (The part of me that laughs at others' suffering rode in on the X-chromosome.) The next night, my mother calls me. She got my father, her hapless and naive life partner of over forty years, to go ask the sales lady for a snow globe. After regaining her composure, the sales lady practically chased my dad out of the store like she was chasing atheist missionaries off her lawn. My mother laughed all the rest of the way to their destination in Cali. My father did not speak to her for two days. So...is it too early for them to visit the WTC site? I wanna see if they have toy airplanes.