Settle Inn Council Bluffs

Happy birthday Nick! 25 years young. Unfortunately on his birthday we had to drive 10 hours. We left at 11am to Warrensburg, MO to deliver our bunnies, Maggie and Sam to Kristin. She is a nice girl who responded to my craiglist ad to foster our bunnies. She has ...

... besuch aber ich sagte, sie dürfte so was mir nicht sagen. Egal, ich habe es gelassen weil es ist mir nicht wichtig.

Aber am Donnerstag war alles (fast) im ordnung. Es gab Truthahn, kartoffel brie, nudeln und käse, cranberry söße, 2 sorten gemuse, und brotchen. Es hat gut geschmeckt aber war nicht so lecker wie letztes Jahr :D hahahaha!! Nein, es war gut. Niemand hat mir geglaubt, dass ich kochen könnte. Aber ich hätte mein Fotoalben ...

... the ways to do a discount trips online. I began a binder, divided by country, with a list of everything I wanted to do. In June, I resigned from my job and began the preparation of this big trip. I started by selling off the items I didn't want put into storage. I moved out of my condo and headed up to Atlanta to get my house prepared to put on the market. After 6 weeks full of fun and ************ the house, I headed ...

... 8211; nothing new for us. And finally, at this stop, it was re-emphasized to me that the Mormons were not the only people to travel west. There were a bunch of other trails and we shared the road with many fellow travelers.



Winter Quarters, Nebraska: By the end of September, 1846, 820 lots had been surveyed for the settlement of Winter Quarters that housed 3,483 members of the Church.. They were organized by blocks and each block was a ward. Brigham Young ...

... Iowa, the Mormon Trail Center at Winter Quarters and the Western Historic Trails Center.

The Kanesville Tabernacle in Council Bluffs, Iowa, was built in 2½ weeks by 200 Saints in late 1847, to provide a meeting place for a conference held on December 27, 1847 at which Brigham Young was sustained as the second President of the Church. That conference marked the first time in modern Church history that Church membership sustained a First Presidency of ...

... and were a welcome site after the arid South Dakota Badlands. We stayed only for an overnight here but had a great steak and a thunderstorm/tornado to rival any we have ever experienced in Florida....WOW Welcome to the tornado belt. Tomorrow - 450 more miles to Saint Louis.

... zone so we had to go back through security. Of course this was after our bags were checked and Jim found out that the bottles he was carrying from the duty free store in Lima could no longer go as carry on. He finally ended up giving it away, but was able to save a unique bottle once it was empty. Fortunately, we had plenty of time between flights to get all that sorted out. We even had time to get a bite to eat. Then it was on to ...

... appreciated the help.



Brian took us to the airport where we met the Kings. After checking in we all had lunch together...Jim, Carol, Chad, Todd, Joyce, Brian, and me. After lunch the boys took off and we headed to security. Our plane was a little late leaving, but nothing major.

We are to leave tomorrow and it is snowing in Omaha. The forecast
started at 1-2 inches. Now it is up to 5-8, tapering off at noon. Our
flight is scheduled to leave at 3:15 so we may be okay if the morning
flights don't back up and if the flight comes in from Dallas so it can
return to Dallas. This is shaping up to be like the time we went to
Sedona and the morning flights canceled. The other bad part is we have
a tight connection in Miami.

After a record sized bon fire in the gorgeous high plains hills and rocky outcroppings of Happy Jack outside of Laramie, WY and our fill of charred hot dogs and gooey smores last night, Jeff, Stephanie, Bethany (the last two being my sisters) and I headed out this morning for Iowa. Another long drive. But I left with a full heart, grateful for the friends God's dropped into my life--thinking here of a college ...