Backyard Camp out

So, the other night we kicked it old style in the back yard! Tin foil dinners, corn on the cob, and grasshopper s'mores were on the menu, and boy were they delicious! We blasted the country music, and sat around the fire and talked until dark! Oh, and by the way, fire roasted corn on the cob is amazing! (we also seasoned it with lime, parmasan cheese, and tony chacharies, so good!) Then to top it all off, Liam and I actually tented it that night! It rained like crazy, but we stayed dry and warm! (not that it would have mattered if we didn't, we were about a 2 min walk from a warm, dry bed, haha).

It's about Time!

Yes, we are finally posting to our blog (This one is for Brad and Kerri)! It seems like we have been doing so many things, we haven't even had the time to post about them. Lets see if I can get you up to date. We left Hawaii and basically went straight to Philly where we saw the Liberty Bell and lots of neat historical sites. Then we had a very lovely and romantic dinner at a fancy pants hole in the wall. It was 4 courses beginning with baby octopus appetizer, then a yummy salad, next was filet mignon, and finally to top it off, the yummiest gooiest chocolate cake ever! Liam says it was his favorite restaurant experience ever! Very quiet and romantic, by candlelight, great food, all four courses, and free (thanks to all of Liam's hard work at boeing). I really enjoyed it too.

Next day we went to D.C. and did just about everything there is to do there in a very short amount of time! We saw the white house, several of the Smithsonians (the hope diamond in the museum of natural history was my favorite), the Library of Congress (beautiful architectural design!), the capitol building, the lincoln memorial, the vietnam memorial, the washington monument, the met. museum of art (very cool!) and of course my favorite store Ross! (just to get warm, it was freezing!) That night, we drove back to Philly to stay in our hotel.

The next day, we left for Up-state New York to visit the Church History Sites. We enjoyed a trip to the Palmyra Temple, saw the two Smith homes, the Sacred Grove, and the Grandon Building. We also hiked up the Hill Cumorah and saw the memorial there. We were both impressed by what an ordinary place it was, and how God takes ordinary people and works with us to accomplish extaordinary things. For more information about the restoration of the true gospel, you can visit http://www.mormon.org/ . This pretty much concludes this trip, then we just drove back and hopped a plane home. For more long winded adventures, check back in a couple days, if you think you can endure (my apologies for the longness of this post!)