More pictures of Maine

Two Lights Light house Maine , We could not see the other light house as the fog was moving in and out two fast and we could not see it to take a picture.

This is Old Orchard Beach in Maine. What a great beach with thousands of people. It was the best day that we had seen this week and there was no rain. I'll bet people thought we were strange to be fully dressed and walking on the beach ...

Travels through Vermont and Maine

Portland Head Light ... Light house Maine

Okay ... It's been a while since we last posted ... but have been very busy with work and celebration of the 24th of July. We have been working so hard that our FM managers gave us both Thursday and Friday off so we could celebrate the 24th of July and have an extra day to see the area. On Thursday we decided to travel to Rutland with the Slades to see the Norman Rockwell Museum, the Vermont Marble Museum and the New England Maple Museum all are within a few miles of each other. This was there normal day off but we had not had a Thursday off before so it was great that it worked out for us to spend some time traveling and visiting with them.

Norman Rockwell's main museum is in Mass. but he lived near Rutland for several years so has one there also. I was really impressed with his works and did not realize that he had drawn so many illustrations. The next stop was the Marble Museum and it was interesting to note that several of our nations monuments in DC are built from Vermont Marble ... it was an interesting visit. We came back to the JSM Visitors Center that evening to have dinner with all the other missionaries. Played a game after and had a really great time.

The next day we traveled with the Sanford's to the coast of Maine which was still in our our Mission. The Sanford's are from Maine so they wanted to see the coast again and eat some seafood. So we were lucky to have a guided tour of a small part of Maine. We travelled first to Old Orchard Beach. Beautful white sands and thousands of people. We walked the beach and enjoyed the ocean for a couple of hours then travelled to Two Lights light house and to Portland Head lights light house. Portland head light is the most photographed light house in Maine and it was a great place. We did a little shopping at a place called Mardins, which is only in Maine, and they sell things at wholesale. Then we drive home. Long day but now we have been to Maine.

Silver Lake, VT

Royalton, VT

Yeah, missing all the grand kids!

It was a misty morning when we were driving up the lane to work at the memorial and we saw this incredible photo opportunity. I was so glad we had our camera with us!!

We drove to Woodstock, Sat. Went to a couple art galleries and checked out some B&B there. On the way home, we drove past Silver Lake in Barnard. It was very nice. Took some nice photos of lovely New England churches and found another covered bridge. I have been working on a couple paintings, just started one of a covered bridge. Nephi has been working on a rocking chair we got last weekend for a dollar from an old farmer who lives on one of the country roads near us.

It has been raining lots for about 2 days now. We spent 2 days last week doing inventory at a chapel in the Stowe area. We are scheduled to inventory the Essex chapel this week. We never know what or where we will be going and doing from one day to the next. But, mostly we are at the Memorial. It is truely a beautiful spot, and we can feel the wonderful spirit here!

Joseph Smith Birthplace Monument~July 2008

Moxely Covered Bridge in Tunbridge, Vermont.

June 26, Picked up Heather & Cassie at Amtrack Station ~Westport, NY.

The grounds around the Monument are really looking great now that the flowers have grown. There are many bus loads of folks visiting this time of year. Many of the people like to stop and ask questions, we try to stay out of the way of them taking photos, and sometimes we offer to take their picture. They always ask where we are from and say they would love to go on a mission to take care of the grounds.

June 22, Heather & Cassie rode Amtrak from Montreal to visit us, after being in Philidelphia, New York and Canada. We picked fresh strawberries, went to yard sales, checked out a couple thrift stores and went to the Christmas Tree Store (in July?). Heather was here just overnight, but Cassie was able to stay 5 days. We had a good time and visited many of the area attractions and did lots of hiking. I was able to a take a few days off, so felt like a mini vacation. Even went shopping without Nephi. Cassie & I found a great sale!!

Also had a nice visit from Rick & Rhonda Schroeder, our past bishop in Evanston, now living in Pennsylvania.

Last weekend was 4th of July. I wanted to find the 6 covered bridges we heard where in Tunbridge. It is a small village about 20 minutes from were we live. After a bit of searching we found and photographed all 6 of them. We had a picnic dinner with the other 6 missionary couples that evening, it was a nice time.

This weekend we traveled about 20 miles to Chelsea to go to their annual flea market. It was fun, but had an even better time at the yard sales on the way there. An old rocker for a dollar (needs lot of TLC), an old highchair (what are we going to do with that?), and some old license plates. Other peoples junk.....our treasure!