We finished up our road trip to pick up Sister Evans our
stay with Bryce and Elise and then once again hit the road home. Of course, it
wouldn’t be an Owens road trip without some adventures along the way.
Monday, November 25 – While Mike worked, Hallie, Sister
Evans, the kids, and Bryce’s family went to the Pentagon and Fort Belvoir and then to Georgetown to buy cupcakes! Hallie, Sister Evans, and the kids went to
Georgetown Cupcake (home of DC Cupcakes on TLC), and Bryce and his family went to
Baked and Wired and
Sprinkles, and then we had a gourmet cupcake party when everyone got home.
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| Remembering the fallen at the Pentagon on 9/11 |
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| At Georgetown Cupcake, home of DC Cupcakes on TLC |
Tuesday, November 26 – Sister Evans went to visit with
President Riggs of the DC South mission. Before then, we went to Cafe Rio and
indulged in some delicious Mexican food.
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| This kid and his faces! Such a clown. |
Wednesday, November 27 – All too soon, it was time to head
back home. We said our goodbyes to Elise and the kids and then hit the road, packed to the gills.
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| We're not kidding. And this is how it looked with a load of stuff in a car-top carrier. |
Before we left the DC area entirely, we stopped at
Tango Pastry, an Argentine
panadería in Arlington. Mike devoured his
pasta frola (quince tart) and empanadas. So tasty! We wanted to
avoid tolls, so we took the surface roads through DC into Maryland for a while
before giving up and hopping onto the highway. We followed the Susquehanna up through
the middle of Pennsylvania, running into only a few patches of unpleasant
weather. After we got to New York, however, it was another story. We ran into
snow on the small side roads leading to Victor, but we made out fine in the
end, only 2 ½ hours later than we had planned.
Thursday, November 28 – Thanksgiving morning dawned sunny
and cold. After breakfast at the hotel, we drove to Palmyra and the Hill
Cumorah to visit the Church History sites there. After finishing up in Palmyra,
we headed toward Pennsylvania, stopping at a Cracker Barrel along the way for
turkey dinner with all the trimmings. After dinner, we drove on to our next
hotel stop. Along the way, we hit the worst weather of our trip when the snow
came down thick enough to make traffic slow to a crawl. Fortunately, it cleared
up after we got out of New York.
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| Depiction of Joseph Smith receiving the gold plates from Moroni |
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| Hill Cumorah Monument |
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| Depiction of the First Vision with the Smith family cabin in the background |
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| Inside the Smith family home |
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| Learning about how the first edition of the Book of Mormon was printed and bound |
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| Happy Thanksgiving, Y'all! |
Friday, November 29 – Last day on the road! We left Eire,
PA, early enough to get out in good time to see
Historic Kirtland, Ohio, and
the
Kirtland Temple. And then we were home. Fergus seemed more than happy to
see us, and we him.
Saturday, November 30 – Mike took Landon to gymnastics while
the girls ran errands, and then we spent a fair amount of the rest of the day
getting settled back in and cleaning up the house. Sister Evans had the
opportunity to go out on splits with the sister missionaries, which was
probably a welcome return to her former routine.
Sunday, December 1 – And suddenly it’s December again. We’re
happy to rejoin the routines of life at home, but we do miss the fun we have
had over the past few weeks. Sister Evans got to go on splits one more time as
a missionary before she officially gets released from full-time missionary
service. Well done, Sister!
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