Weekend in Palmyra, part one

Alan took the day off this last Saturday and we drove up to Palmyra for the weekend. Our friends Trent and Jenny came with us, so our little car was very cozy. It took us about 4 1/2 hours to get there, and the first thing we did was go to the temple. Alan and I were able to go in while Trent and Jenny watched Elsie, then we switched. It's a small temple, but very pretty!

Trent and Jenny were already inside, so we tried to use the self timer... It didn't work so well.

We went down the road to the Hill Cumorah visitors center to wait for Trent and Jenny. It was very hot and humid; we were happy to wait in an air conditioned building! Alan is giving Elsie her very first bottle. I got one ready for her incase she needed it while we were in the temple, but she was fine. When she did get hungry, we decided to give it a try. It was strange to have someone else feeding her...
Our next stop was the Peter Whitmer Farm. It was getting later in the day, and all of the sites close at 7pm. The Whitmer farm was the furthest away, so we toured there then called it a day.

Mmm, dinner. We stayed the night in a hotel in Rochester.

The next morning we hung around the hotel until check out time. The sites didn't open until 12:30, so we drove around and found the Martin Harris farm property and the grave site of Alvin Smith. When the buildings finally opened, we went to the Grandin Printing building first. The senior couple giving us the tour asked us to pick a number, and that number would correspond with a Book of Mormon language, which would predict where we would go if we served a senior couple mission. Our number was 42, and it told us we would go to Bolivia.

Trent and Jenny

Elsie reading a replica of the first edition of the Book of Mormon

One of the original copies of the first 5,000 Book of Mormons printed

Poor Elsie. She was such a trooper during this trip. We had to blow through all her nap times, so she just had to fall asleep on the go.

Alan in front of two original paintings

Elsie woke up at the end of the tour and is ready for the next site!

I originally tried to make this whole trip on big blog post, but it was very long, and blogger kept messing up the photos. So check back tomorrow for the rest of the story!