Monday, July 18, 2005
This weekend we went up to Palmyra, New York to see the Hill Cumorah Pageant. It has sort of become a tradition around here and all three boys are already counting down the days until next year's show. We drove up Saturday morning as soon as Kak finished work and we finished making enough sandwiches to last us two days. We picked up McDonald's for breakfast and arrived in Palmyra around 2:30pm. We picked up some ice cream and some Hill Cumorah shirts (since Noah's been coveting Hunter's ever since we got him one last year) and then headed off to "the Hill" for a VIP Tour of the stage. We picked up dinner at "the Hill" and then the rain started pouring down. For three hours we sat under the tarp waiting and praying for the rain to stop. We gave up on trying to stay dry and watched the pageant with the tarp as a blanket. It finally stopped raining when Christ descended in the Americas. We hit the hotel right around midnight and all of us were soaked to the bone. Everyone slept in late on Sunday morning, we had two breakfasts (the one we brought with us and a hotel breakfast they gave us because our AC didn't work and our bed was too small) and then headed back to the Hill where we visited the Visitor's Center and the Sacred Grove. Noah found a gigantic caterpillar in the Grove and proudly carried it during our entire walk, kindly letting little passerbys hold it and look at it. Then he picked me a bouquet of flowers and carefully placed them in a drink cup for a vase. It was the highlight of his trip. We left Palmyra around 2:30pm and arrived back home around 8:30pm, just in time to tuck the kids in bed and crash ourselves. With another baby on the way and Stout Family Reunion in November and Henrichsen Family Christmas in December we don't have any vacation time leftover this year. So, this was sort of a whirlwind mini vacation but the boys had so much fun and it was nice to be together for a weekend without worrying about grocery shopping and lawn mowing and church responsibilities and all the other million chores that seem to get piled up for the weekend.
posted by Shana # 10:25 PM 
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