Preparation Day - June 2, 2010 - Time to Catch Up!

Hey all you friends that may want to read our blog. 

This is all new to us.  Thanks to our wonderful children we can now stay in touch and let you know what we are doing.  Thanks Jo for setting this up.  Thanks Andrea for delegating and letting us use your password for a little while, and thanks Michelle for the input, if you gave any, to help with this project. If any of our other kids helped thanks to you too.  If you didn't help I know you would have if they had asked. 

Well here we go!

Monday,

 Memorial Day, was very busy at the Fort.  We had 802 visitors.  We were all running to keep up with all the people It was so much fun to meet people from all over.  The MOR (Missionary Observation Room) was full of food that Missionaries brought to share. We would grab a bite when we could between tours.  It reminds me of the Teachers lounge at school.  Everybody talking, eating and sharing stories of their adventures. (Tours). 

Tuesday:

 We had the early shift.  8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p,.m.  From 10:00 - 12:00  we were put on the "Chair" as they call it.  We have to watch for cars coming in and assign Missionaries to go out to greet the car and take them on a Tour, You have to keep track of where all the Missionaries are. If they are going "East", (restooms), in showing one of the Movies, in the Fort, or in the Out Buildings.Then when they come back you have to put them in the right order.  If the people Missionaries greet are only going to use the restroom then those Missionaries return to the MOR and they go to the front of the list again.  It is fun but a little stressful.  You do have others watching so that is nice.  Today wasn't as busy as yesterday.  We had several great tours. 

 Wednesday,

Today was our 3rd P-Day.   The  first P-Day was spent in Richfield getting groceries, going to the bank and getting set up. Last week we went looking for Horse Hollow, west of Kanosh.  It is all fenced off and we were not able to get to it.  This week we went the same direction but this time we went looking for snowfake obsidian.  We were successful and found some pretty good chunks.  We visited the Kanosh Merchanile and bought milk and cereal to see us through until we can get to Richfield again.  Tonight Elder and Sister Garner from Lehi, invited us to dinner in Fillmore. We ate at the "Garden of Eatin".  The onion rings were excellent.  The hamburgers were great too.  Mike is going to figure out how to post pictures to go with this blog.  Jo you may get a call if he can't figure it out::)

We also went to Coyote Spring. It's an oasis out on the desert where Mike and his brothers used to go hunting rabbits in the old days; about twenty-five miles west of Kanosh. It's a nice cool spot that you wouldn't expect on the desert. We saw several antelope, and the wild geraniums with their beautiful orange flowers were everywhere.

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We also drove around in Kanosh a took a few photos. One was of the old milking barn where        Mike used to milk cows when he was a boy. It's still barely standing after all of these years.