Our New York and Canada Trip

Our trip to New York started out with visiting the Log Home where Joseph Smith lived in Palmyra.  This is our family looking pretty in front of it.

Here are David and Amanda in the Sacred Grove. (Evan is in the back.)

We  went to the Hill Cumorah Pageant and this is what the "kids" did while we were waiting for it to start. Get a good look at David's and Shanna's cards.






Okay, so I haven't figured out how to do blogs with pictures yet.  Up there is the stage for the Hill Cumorah Pageant.   

Monday, we went to Corning Museum of Glass and made stuff.  Brian's finished flower is up there, then Dad blowing his paperweight, his finished paperweight, and Brian working on his flower.  When Brian gets home from Scout Camp with the camera, we'll have to take a better picture of it.

The next picture is from Tuesday. Brian and I are in our cheapo plastic raincoats waiting to get on the Maid of the Mist boat to take us near Niagara Falls.  We were already wet because it poured while Brian and I were waiting for Milt to take a necessary side trip.  

We went to a bird and reptile place after the Falls and lunch.  They wouldn't let us take any pictures because THEY took pictures and wanted you to buy them at the end.  

Below is a picture of one of the gardens at the Niagara Parks Botanical Gardens.  It is free and they have several gardens to see.  The picture next to that is the Flower Clock.  Every year they plant it in a different pattern.  If you go around behind it, there are pictures of it for almost every year since they started doing it.   It has been there for several decades.

This picture on the right is the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens.  It is kind of a cool building, although it is pretty old.  They have 12 "houses" in it.  Some of them are:  Begonia House, Orchid House, Tropical House, Desert House, and Victorian Ivy and Herb House (where Dad and Brian played a giant game of checkers).  

This purple flower is one of the strangest I have ever seen.  It was in the Tropical House.  Maybe Shanna knows.  They also had HUGE hibiscus flowers in there.

Below you can see the HUGE twins that Shanna and Evan are expecting, one each.  A boy for him and a girl for her.  Ha ha.  That was the big news of the weekend.  

The video is the Christmas ornament from my glass blowing debut.