July 9th 
Saturday,
July 9, 2005 “Really Big Shew and other adventures”
"Yesterday
it rained cats and dogs. Had to buy two bumbershoots and a poncho. We tried to
stay dry while we visited the Joseph Smith farm and the Sacred Grove. But by
show time for the pageant, the rain had stopped and we saw the really BIG show
(shew).
Mom and I attended a temple session in the
Palmyra
temple too. Between the hotel and the
Palmyra
area we must cross the Erie Canal 5 times . . . 'we've hauled some barges
in our day, filled with lumber, coal and hay, and every inch of the way we know
from Albany
to Buffalo'.
Today
is the REALLY big falls day --
Niagara falls
. Hope we can get the boys up and going. There is breakfast downstairs at this
hotel so that should help motivate them. We lack the proper papers (birth
certificates) to properly enter
Canada
but we are going to try anyway (we all have picture IDs . . . so what the hey .
. . it's worth a try). If we don't cross the
Canada
we can still do the falls, it's just that we'll miss the 'Ripley Believe it or
Not
Museum
' and I was r e a l l y looking forward to seeing weird and ridiculous stuff in
wax (NOT. . . this is one of the things the boys picked out) :-)
Pictures
of the Sacred Grove and the really Big Shew are attached."
The
Sacred Grove, Nephites and Lamanites at the Hill Cumorah Pageant, and a Lock 29
on the Erie Canal.
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