Thursday, June 26, 2008
Sunday, June 22, 2008
MAY 6 Carthage Illinois
Today we drove to Carthage Illinois. We were able to tour Carthage Jail and see the visitor center. It was a semi warm day with a little sprinkle of rain. Carthage was amazing. To think I was able to take my children to see where Joseph Smith was killed and where he was able to stay his last days of his life was amazing. The spirit there was so strong I hope my children felt the spirit as strong as I did. So amazing that the church is able to preserve such sights as this so church members can experience such a beautiful place. After visiting Carthage we went to eat at Hardee's. Next we drove to Nauvoo about 20 miles. We stayed at the Nauvoo family inn it was very nice and we had 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms and a kitchen. We settleted in and then went to the Nauvoo visitor center and went on a tour. Next we had tickets to see a play put on called Rendezvous. My kids thought it was really good. I think they will remember that the whole audience sang Happy Birthday to me because my birthday was the next day. We are excited to whow our kids this place and hopefully feel the spirit that is here.
May 4-5 Kirksville Mo
We had breakfast at the hotel and then left for Kirksville Mo about 10 in the morning. We drove until about 7 pm and we finally made it to my brother's house in Kirksville. We had dinner with my brother spencer and his wife mindy and there 3 beautiful girls. They live in a really nice duplex and they had set up there basement for us to sleep in for the next few nights. My kids were really excited to see there cousins and to play with them for a couple of days. Monday we kind of hung out at spencer and mindys and the kids played the wii and the kids really liked to play guitar hero with spencer and Noelle liked doing dance mat with mindy. We went to lunch at Wendy's and then took the great tour of Kirksville. My brother spencer is going to medical school in Kirksville, they have a walmart and a few groceries stores and a few restaurants and that is about it. My sister in law says that if you really need something you have to go to Columbia which is about 90 minutes away. We let the kids just play and mindy made a spectacular chicken dinner for us. Thanks spencer and mindy for your hospitality!!!
NAUVOO ILLINOIS TRIP MAY 2-9
We started our trip leaving Utah at 3:30 in the morning. We got all of the kids in the car hoping they would all go back to sleep. Unfortunatly our kids were all excited to be able to watch a video in the car so they all stayed awake. Andrew is our reading fanatic so on our way I saw a red light in the back of the car and Andrew was reading his book by a glow stick. We drove and made it to Rawlins Wyoming and got out and gas up. It was really intresting because the truck stop was a very busy place because they had closed the road ahead the night before because of snow so all of the trucker had to spend the night somewhere else and they all were driving through that morning. After Rawlins there were about 10 to 15 semi that had jack knifed off of the freeway and we had to watch for ice and snow on the road. It is MAY and there is a big snow storm!!!!
We finally made it to North Platte Nebraska where we spent the night in a Holiday Inn. The kids really liked the pool and we ate at an Applebee's in town. The kids were pretty good on this leg of the trip we are about 8 hrs from my brothers house in Kirksville Missouri.
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