After lunch and hanging out at the cemetery for awhile some of us were getting tired and were wanting naps while others wanted to stay and continue searching for ancestors. So we split up and the plan was for me to take the nappers back to the cabin while the rest of the crew stayed at the cemetery. Unfortunately though our plans got thwarted when a bad accident occurred in Logan canyon and the police completely shut down the entire road. They told us to come back in an hour when they hopefully had the vehicles moved and towed. We felt really bad for whoever was in the accident and had a quick family prayer for them. Then, since we had some time to kill we went back to the cemetery to let Adam and gang know the canyon was closed and then the kids and I took a little drive to allow Jamis to continue sleeping. We of course had to go and see the Logan Temple!
The kids made an interesting observation though that the Logan temple doesn’t have an Angel Moroni on it. We looked and looked for him and drove all around the whole temple, since none of us had ever seen a temple without a statue, but he was no where to be seen. Sure enough, when I looked it up online later, we came to find out that Logan is one of about 20 temples that don’t have an angel Moroni statue. Who knew?
While driving to the temple we happened to pass what looked to be a very fun park in the back of the Whittier community center, so after our drive around the temple we went back to see if it was open. Sure enough it was a public park and was a really nice one at that! I loved the flowers they had as you first walked in, but the kids just loved the playground. It was like a fairy tale land castle theme complete with a pirate ship and everything!
Unfortunately my camera battery died right after I took these pictures, but the kids liked the park so much we ended up having to drive by it the next day to show Adam and Brans how cool it was. ha ha!
The rest of the night we spent back at the logan cabin where we took naps, watched cool runnings, and then had a nice crockpot roast dinner with potatoes, carrots, watermelon, corn on the cob, berry spinach salad, and flaky biscuits. We ended the night with Jimmy Fallon ice cream and Salted caramel ice cream for dessert. Yum! Then the Kerics and Adam and I stayed up talking until nearly 1:00 am!
The next morning we all had stuff we needed to get home to (Kimbers Grandmother was not doing well, and we were helping my sister do the 2nd half of her move to her new apartment that afternoon in Spanish Fork) so we pretty much got up, had cereal for breakfast, cleaned the cabin and then headed out. Sure was a wonderful memorial day weekend away though and we so enjoyed our one on one time with Kimber and Eric (the Kerics). We had such a great time with them and we truly feel blessed to have such amazing awesome friends! Thanks so much for coming guys! We love you!