Day 15 of Our NC Road Trip Aug 8,2009

The Breakfast at the hotel was wonderful. It was Waffles,biskets and gravy, cearal,oatmeal,muffins,toast,and juice. We were nice and full. We made it to Salt Lake City were the trek west ended or should I say began.

Here is a good big brother. Megan loves him.

We went to the visitor center on Temple Square.

The cute boys at the visitor center

Awww What a picture

the kids in the tabernacle. It was cool they did a deminstration of the aqustics in the building. Anywhere in the tabernacle you can hear a pin drop. It is incredible because it was made before all these cool technologies were around.

Me and the kids in front of the Salt Lake Temple

This was a Kodac moment

one, two three weeeeee!!!

We also went to the assembly hall and the other visitor center. We had to leave . A very sad thing. We made it to BakerCity,OR. We stayed in the same hotel that we did when we took John and Nanci to Rexberg. We are only 6 hours from the farm YAY!!!!!!!!!!!

Day 14 of Our NC Road Trip Aug 7,2009

Dave and Cari saw us off at about 7:30. We stopped at Burger King for breakfast. This was going to be our longest day in the truck. We need to make up some time today.This picture was actually taken on the way to North Carolina,but that is all we saw of it .While we were about to drive under it I snapped a picture. On the way home we stopped to see the museum. This is where the different pioneers crossed paths. There were the 49ers,Mormons,Oregan Trail and another one that I can think of. When we got there they take you up an excalator to the pioneer time. They give you earphones and you have a self guided tour through the museum which is over the freeway.

I had to take a picture of this, it just shows the strength and the faith the pioneers had to cross the plains and the rocky Mountains. They lost so many loved ones on the journey.listening to pioneer storiesThey even talked about the Auto and its trek west.The tour was over but it was well worth the money to see it. It fit in so nicely with our learning all about the mormon pioneers.This was on the side of the free way at a rest stop. It looked like Abe was going to fall on you because of the clouds in the sky. It was really high up as you can tell by the kids looking at him.Look we got a state line.

We Met up with Dad ,Mom,Aunt Linda and Grandma Orm. The kids were playing at the fire station to get some energy out.

Here is dad and mom and Rob chatting. Dad and Mom were on there way to see the new baby .Ah-ha we got to see her first.

The kids were so excited about this tunnel. There was quite alot of them in the East coast.

We made it to Rawlins,WY for the night.

Day 13 Our NC Road Trip Aug,6,2009

The morning started off with sugared cearal. Great thing to have when you are going to be in a car all day. This is the Independence,MI visitor center. The kids thought this was a lot of fun.
They were packing the covered wagon to take to Nauvoo.

Megan didn't have anymore pants clean so sh went in her diapers. We didn't have time to stop at a laundry mat. We will do them on at Cari's.

The 1 week old baby. We got to see her first. Haley loves holding babies except my babies. She doesn't like them very much.

Doesn't cari look great for just having a baby?

Awwwwwwww!

This is Liberty Jail where Joseph Smith and 4 other men were lock up in for over 100 days. The ceilings were only 6 ft and one of the men in there was 6ft 5 in. They slept on the floor and were in there during the winter it was so cold that the two rivers froze over. Which never happens. The walls were 4ft thick. As you can see the stones on the outside and ten loose rocks and then wood. No one ever escaped from that jail. That is what jails should be like now. Not many people would be return affenders.

Megan was so excited about holding Elizabeth. She has never held a baby before.
More holding of the baby

We were in the middle of the tour through Liberty jail and Bryce yells AUNT CARI ,AUNT CARI!!!!! so we finally got to see them. We went to a mexican reasurant for lunch. After the tour we followed Dave and Cari 2 hours to their house. That is where we spent the rest of the night. We stayed up until midnight. It was a nice visit. I did 4 batches of laundry. Yeh we have clean clothes again.

Day 12 of Our Trip To NC

Look at that bat!!! It is Huge. That was a fun day. Today we got up and left at 8:00 Am and went to the Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory. All the bats from the major leagues were and are made there.

The kids really enjoyed themselves. They are being clowns.

Spence pretending he is Babe Ruth

Oh Look it is one of our own Mariniers.

This is how many bats come out of the trees. They are really picky about the grain of wood.

Bryce's turn in the front seat

I had to get a picture of all these turkeys being trasported. You don't see things like this at home.
We made it to Indiana. We stopped in Santa Claus,IN . The home of Santa Claus. It was alot of fun.

There was a Santa Claus Museum. The kids thought it was fun to ride on Santa's Slay.They got to write Santa a letter.

Haley looks so excited to write.

We went to were Lincoln was born and raised as a child.

We walked around the farm of Abraham Lincoln.

Here is the St Louis Temple peeking over the trees. We met Jill and Dwanne Hess and their kids for dinner. There was a park on the other side of the temple. We had a nice visit the kids were excited to see old friends.

Look at that group I remember when it was 2 kids and know it is 9. Time sure does fly.