so much to blog, so little time

cyber space, what a great place to be! I am going to write a lot, so sorry for reading, but it is pretty awesome. our adventure home: We picked up Cade's mom from the airport on saturday at about 3 ish so she could help us drive home and see everything with us. we drove for 6 hours and slept in a tent at the Wayne county fairgrounds in palmyra NY. On sunday we woke up early and went to the Sacred Grove before our 9:00 sacrament meeting. It was so amazing to be there early in the morning with the bees humming and the sweet birds singing. After sacrament meeting we drove around the temple and walked around hill Cumorah. AFter a brief walk around of the hill we drove for about 2 hours to get to Canada and Niagara Falls. We rode the boat right up into it and it was cool. It was rainy but we couldn'e tell because we were getting soaked just from the falls. None of us had been there before and it was so cool. After we had had our share of water fall we drove to Kirtland OH. It was about 7 so most of the places were done giving tours so we went and set up camp at Punderson State Park. In the morning we walked around and got tours of stuff and went through the Kirtland temple. at about 12 we started our drive to Crystal Lake (right around Chicago) to stay the night at my Aunt and Uncle's house. they had a great BBQ for us. ( the traffic around chicago was awful) It was so nice of them to let us stay (and feed us great food). We awoke early and left (after a great breakfast) to nauvoo. In Nauvoo we went on a carriage ride and toured some buildings got a free cookie, saw joseph smith's grave. all in all a pretty good visit. If we had more time we could have stayed longer. We drove to Carthage Jail when we peeled ourselves away from Nauvoo. It was so cool. In our tour we were with a family with a bunch of wild little kids, but it was still good. one of them jumped on the antique bed they have in the jail. when we were done it was about 6 and we drove into South Dakota just after sioux falls (2:00am) and slept in the car (sorry Cade's mom) The next day we woke up early and drove to Mt. Rushmore (about 4 hours) and looked around, drove past Crazy horse and had a great buffet at Pizza Hut. We drove 5 hours to Martins Cove ( we got there at about 5 and left at 7) and saw Cades Great aunt Beverly and uncle someone. When we were done we decided that at 7, 5 more hours would be nothing so we drove and drove and got to centerville at 1am.

I never wrote anything down so I went into great detail so I could have everything (like a journal, in cyber space) We had such a great time and it was so fun. pictures l8r.