Road Trips!

Time to put up the next batch of pictures. These are from two different trips we made. Last weekend we went up to Palmyra and the week before we went to Great Falls National Park in Virginia. Great Falls is pretty close to Washington so we drove out for the afternoon on Columbus Day.

Last weekend we went to Palmyra. One of the guy here is from State College, PA and his parents were nice enough to let us stay at their house. We hung out there one day and drove up to Palmyra the next day. 

Great Falls National Park - I realized that I don't have a great pic of the falls. Google it.

We climbed down below the falls and played in the water.

Penn State Campus. I thought BYU was a big school, PSU has 45,000 students!

It was a little rainy. Luckily I found an umbrella at Ryan's house.

The Crew: Jordan, Ryan, Jordan (back) and Rachel, Allison, Jason (front). We are Ryan's high school's homecoming football game. Pretty exiting- they call them the "little lions" (PSU is the lions).

It was a 4 hour drive up to Palmyra, so by the time we got there we didn't have tons of time, but we got to see the important stuff.

On top of Hill Cumora.

Statue at Hill Cumora.

Palmyra Temple!

View from the Temple. The small hill you see in the break in the trees off in distance is the Sacred Grove. Very Neat.

View of the newer "frame home" from the original Smith cabin.

Pathway from the Smith cabin to the Sacred Grove.

The Sacred Grove.

Though it was a short trip I really enjoyed the opportunity to see placed that I have so often learned about. It was neat to see how close these sites are to each other. I especially appreciated being able to see how close the Sacred Grove is to the Smith Farm and to walk through the leaf covered pathways there. I know that is the place where God prepared and called Joseph Smith to be a Prophet.