Well, we did it again. Here we are 8 months later at Hill Cumorah!
We took in the full percipitous glory of the hill both by foot...
...and by bum...
After a picnic lunch a-top 'O-hill, we headed to the Joseph Smith farm...
...and explored all the wondrous places Jospeh hid the golden plates from the angry mobs...
Next we visited the tree that the Smith family planted in Alvin's memory after his death...
And while the big Toads wandered through the Sacred Grove, the little Toads couldn't be pried off a little bridge over a stream. So we hung back and played "Pooh sticks" (that is "Pooh" with a capital P... as in Winnie the Pooh). If you haven't played, all you need is a bridge over water and sticks. Drop them on the upstream side of the bridge, run to the downstream side of the bridge and watch them sail away. Our game was less "Pooh sticks" and more "Beaver Dam" (that is dam without an n). Not much flowed through... so Tad suggested we play "rock sink" instead.
BTW, the question to the answer is,
"How many hours can the Toads travel without totally loosing it?"
11 hours and 27 minutes (all but 2 hours as tethered drive time) is not too shabby.
Unfortunately, we still had another 1 hour and 30 minutes to go before we reached Kirtland, Ohio where we got to fall over and veg out.
Next up on the agenda, a quick fly-by the Kirtland temple on our way out to Indiana to visit Uncle Steve, Aunt Missy and cousin Isabella. On to Nauvoo from there! Wish us luck!
We took in the full percipitous glory of the hill both by foot...
...and by bum...
After a picnic lunch a-top 'O-hill, we headed to the Joseph Smith farm...
...and explored all the wondrous places Jospeh hid the golden plates from the angry mobs...
Next we visited the tree that the Smith family planted in Alvin's memory after his death...
And while the big Toads wandered through the Sacred Grove, the little Toads couldn't be pried off a little bridge over a stream. So we hung back and played "Pooh sticks" (that is "Pooh" with a capital P... as in Winnie the Pooh). If you haven't played, all you need is a bridge over water and sticks. Drop them on the upstream side of the bridge, run to the downstream side of the bridge and watch them sail away. Our game was less "Pooh sticks" and more "Beaver Dam" (that is dam without an n). Not much flowed through... so Tad suggested we play "rock sink" instead.
BTW, the question to the answer is,"How many hours can the Toads travel without totally loosing it?"
11 hours and 27 minutes (all but 2 hours as tethered drive time) is not too shabby.
Unfortunately, we still had another 1 hour and 30 minutes to go before we reached Kirtland, Ohio where we got to fall over and veg out.
Next up on the agenda, a quick fly-by the Kirtland temple on our way out to Indiana to visit Uncle Steve, Aunt Missy and cousin Isabella. On to Nauvoo from there! Wish us luck!
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