MaeLyn's Musings

Friday Aug 1, 2014 After breakfast, we piled in the car and set off to see the sites of old Nauvoo. We started at the Pioneer Pastimes area, where we played a lot of fun games. The kids walked on stilts, walked bears up ropes, and played all sorts of other games that pioneer children might have played.  After a while, we made our way to the theater, where we watched a play, called "Just Plain Anna Amanda". It was just as cute as I remembered it. After the play, the actors came out to talk with the audience members. Once again, Peter got to talk with Sister Romney, the missionary he had seen and talked with the evening before, and he even got his picture taken with her. After the play, we went back to our car and ate lunch. Then we went to the Family Living Center, and got to watch several demonstrations, including bread making, candle making, weaving, rope making, pottery, and coopering (barrel making). Later that afternoon we went to the Vis...

Tuesday, Jul 29, 2014 The rainy day was spent packing, cleaning, and preparing for our trip. That evening, around 8pm or so, my sister Lindy, her husband, and seven children arrived, having driven two cars from their home in Utah. That night, our small home was full. Lindy and her husband slept in Hannah's room. Most of the boys (Our three and the youngest two of their boy cousins) slept in the boys' room, (although I think one of the cousins ended up on the dining room floor before the night was over.) The four girl cousins and Hannah all slept in the living room and the oldest boy cousin slept on the sofa out in the play room. Wednesday, Jul 30, 2014 We awoke around 6:30am, and gathered in the living room for scripture reading, after which we dressed, ate breakfast (which Lindy was kind enough to prepare), loaded up the cars, and the caravan set off through the rain on our journey east. Since we were all traveling together, we let Hannah go with her cousins in their c...