Pondering how hard the Pioneers and early church members toiled at Cove Fort for the asking of the church leaders, I thought of how now nearing the "last days"
we too would be required to toil on a remote property, raising food, surviving and waiting for the return of our Father in Heaven... It seems now with the General Election over, we are headed in that direction...
We had the opportunity to travel a lot this year.... It's fun when you can meet up with family and spend time together. We decided since this year Taylor L turned the big eight years old we would make a few impromptu visits to Utah my second home. We decided to go to SLC for a couple of days the first time mostly just to get away... Getting away from Las Vegas is always a good thing for me, if it's going to SLC, Provo, or up the the property near Cedar City... Gee, I'll go to St. George if that's all it takes.
Our first trip was for fun... We spent a bunch of time going through Temple Square, we had asked for General Conference tickets late last year and was typically put on hold. I wasn't holding my breath on this one, but I thought it would be the icing on the cake to go a few months after Taylor L's Baptism. After Temple square, we went to the Clark Planetarium. What a hoot. Winging it for a few hours we decided to go see the "Night Vision" show. Wow, talk about feeling insignificant in the universe. It left me with a rare, awed and uneasy feeling... We saw a glimpse of the Hubble telescope in a black area and when close up in a pin point saw millions of galaxies that were millions of light years across. Talk about humbling... So much for the grain of sand on the beach theory.
More like a quark in an atom... Maybe. It definitly gave a whole new meaning the term; "being cast out"...
Never the less, I didn't sleep much that night. It was cold, it was the end of February.. We were going to the Hoogle Zoo the next morning and the " This is the Place" monument. We ate an early breakfast and headed up to the monument. Talk about freezing? Where did the cold come from?
We never made it to the zoo. Another time perhaps. We did stop at Rubio's on 21st south and somewhere east. Sandi opened up that restaurant way back when. It's only one of a few in Utah she opened that are still going.. I hated it when she was gone opening up new stores... Never the less we headed back to Las Vegas near noon time. We stopped at a little place called Cove Fort just north of Filmore. There was a brief movie and then a quick tour. We met an older sister missionary, and she told us about the open house on August 1st or there abouts. We promised we would return... And we did. It was fun to see her and talk again... We had to look her up as she was wearing a pioneer outfit..
The rest of the trip went by fast... Up and back in one day... 8 hours to be exact..
I must have had a tail wind. My car was getting around 41 MPG at 80MPH... Not too shabby. Our SUV only gets 18 MPH.
It was a fun day... We learned a lot and vowed to return in August. And we did.
We took a few pictures at the open house, rode around in an open wagon with two huge black horses. It was a blast....
Http://allanes.blogspot.com/
we too would be required to toil on a remote property, raising food, surviving and waiting for the return of our Father in Heaven... It seems now with the General Election over, we are headed in that direction...
We had the opportunity to travel a lot this year.... It's fun when you can meet up with family and spend time together. We decided since this year Taylor L turned the big eight years old we would make a few impromptu visits to Utah my second home. We decided to go to SLC for a couple of days the first time mostly just to get away... Getting away from Las Vegas is always a good thing for me, if it's going to SLC, Provo, or up the the property near Cedar City... Gee, I'll go to St. George if that's all it takes.
Our first trip was for fun... We spent a bunch of time going through Temple Square, we had asked for General Conference tickets late last year and was typically put on hold. I wasn't holding my breath on this one, but I thought it would be the icing on the cake to go a few months after Taylor L's Baptism. After Temple square, we went to the Clark Planetarium. What a hoot. Winging it for a few hours we decided to go see the "Night Vision" show. Wow, talk about feeling insignificant in the universe. It left me with a rare, awed and uneasy feeling... We saw a glimpse of the Hubble telescope in a black area and when close up in a pin point saw millions of galaxies that were millions of light years across. Talk about humbling... So much for the grain of sand on the beach theory.
More like a quark in an atom... Maybe. It definitly gave a whole new meaning the term; "being cast out"...
Never the less, I didn't sleep much that night. It was cold, it was the end of February.. We were going to the Hoogle Zoo the next morning and the " This is the Place" monument. We ate an early breakfast and headed up to the monument. Talk about freezing? Where did the cold come from?
We never made it to the zoo. Another time perhaps. We did stop at Rubio's on 21st south and somewhere east. Sandi opened up that restaurant way back when. It's only one of a few in Utah she opened that are still going.. I hated it when she was gone opening up new stores... Never the less we headed back to Las Vegas near noon time. We stopped at a little place called Cove Fort just north of Filmore. There was a brief movie and then a quick tour. We met an older sister missionary, and she told us about the open house on August 1st or there abouts. We promised we would return... And we did. It was fun to see her and talk again... We had to look her up as she was wearing a pioneer outfit..
The rest of the trip went by fast... Up and back in one day... 8 hours to be exact..
I must have had a tail wind. My car was getting around 41 MPG at 80MPH... Not too shabby. Our SUV only gets 18 MPH.
It was a fun day... We learned a lot and vowed to return in August. And we did.
We took a few pictures at the open house, rode around in an open wagon with two huge black horses. It was a blast....
Http://allanes.blogspot.com/
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