ithaca, palmyra and kirtland

so much has happened since the last post. i will catch you up in chunks at a time, starting with our last weekend in michigan.

the last weekend we were in michigan, we decided to take our chances with the weekend trip again, and visit palmyra and kirtland. we also decided to visit ithaca ny (the place where i had lived in the summer of 2002) while we were in the vacinity (a 1,000 mile trip in two days). so we drove to ithaca first thing saturday morning and for a few hours, enjoyed the beautiful scenery. i also enjoyed reminiscing and seeing places i remembered. the fingerlake region is soooo beautiful. i can't imagine how sad the saints were to leave such a pretty place.

that afternoon we headed to palmyra for the hill cumorah pageant. it was great and tyrell enjoyed it, but it was cut short by a rain storm. it had been raining most of the day but it had cleared up and the show started. about half way through, the clouds were rolling in and the lightening started. ty suggested that we head to the car before the rain fell. which was a great idea because we were only about 50 feet from our car when the down pour started, people started running for their cars and the pageant paused. so we rushed to get the baby and our stuff in the car. carter and i dived in the front while tyrell handled the stroller. and judging by all the screaming from the back, this was no simple task (because our trunk was really full). so we sat there and waited with everyone else to see if the rain would subside. when it didn't, they canceled the pageant and we headed to our camping site at the fairgrounds (as un-enchanting as it sounds but it was close and cheap so we didn't really care). we got there and figured out how to set up our new tent, and thankfully the rain had stopped. as i was looking around i realized that i didn't know where our suite case was. so i asked tyrell if he had put it somewhere and when it was no where to be found, i thought of a possible location.

MISHAP #1. "tyrell, when you were loading the stroller into the trunk as we were frantically trying to get out of the rain, did you take out the suitcase?" he gave me a look and said "i'll be right back." so after we had a good laugh, he headed out to the pageant parking lot (which was actually a grass field) to look for our suitcase. he had taken it out to put the stroller in and in his haste had forgotten to put the suit case back in. so i sat imagining the site of an empty field with a lone red suitcase in the middle, and mourning over it's poor soaked contents. luckily for us, someone had spotted this unlikely item and taken it to security, so it was easily found and luckily the clothes inside were not wet!!!

the next morning we went to church then to the smith farm and the sacred grove. carter was having a hard time because he was not sleeping very well so because i had been there before, ty went and saw the sites and i stayed in the car with sleeping carter.

we then headed home by way of kirtland ohio. we were able to do the tour of the kirtland temple and we enjoyed learning both about the history of the temple and a little about the church of christ (who own the temple). we were only there an hour or so until we needed to head home. all in all it was a great trip, but a bit rushed. we were glad we did it and took advantage of the relative nearness of the church sites before we moved back west.

next post.... the move