Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Nauvoo, Il

We visited Dale's dental office and all the Tripps got tooth brushes!

Tonya and I checked out some prairie grass, yup, that's what it was alright.We looked at the stained glass temple star replicas.

We drove into Nauvoo around lunch time and looked around at the sites. The temple stands in the middle of town on the hill and is very beautiful.
The Tripps' great- great- grandfather, Enoch Bartlet Tripp, was baptized in this store in Feb 1846.
This is the inside of the store where they brought a large tub from the temple and Heber C. Kimball baptized Enoch and two other men.
Tonya and Debi with the store goods.
This is Enochs' aunt's house that he stayed at.
Printing office in Nauvoo.Ding bat~
ornamental piece of type used to take up space but have no real use. *
Chase-holds the letters to print in a set size. Thus the term, cut to the chase- taking words out so it all fits inside to print.
Galley- a long narrow block of wood with unbound letter types so you had to hold them tight together or they would slip out.
Mind your P's and Q's- it's easy to mistake lowercase p's and q's in setting the type.
Stereotype-When something is printed often they make a permanent mold of the print set.
Quo Key-tightens everything down.
Pretending to print on the press. Hot off the press didn't work well because they had to hang the paper up to dry before they could be handled.
We played some pioneer games.
Found a toilet!
Tried out the stilts.
Racing game.
Dressed up.
Found some transportation.
Walked into the city.
Danced with a bunch of strangers that felt like friends.
Watched the Nauvoo Pageant that Alan and I were supposed to be in.
Went to the Villa and relaxed before bed.
The next morning we walked the trail of hope and read pioneer diary passages on the way down to the Mississippi River, where they crossed to leave for the west.
Reading the signs.
What the Conestoga wagons looked like that they took to Salt Lake City.
The end of Parley street on the side of the Missis sip.
We met Dale at the Temple and did a session that morning. Loved the pictures, old aprons, stained glass, sun, moon, and stars all around. It was packed with people and lots of weddings going on.
The sibs.
Stained glass stars on the 4th floor.
One of the sun stones in town.
Katie told us we had to drop by the fudge factory. No wonder I gained almost 5 pounds on this trip!
The bagpipe band. I loved it, they played beautifully.
They even let us get into the act; what a great group!
We said good-bye to Dale and Katie and drove to Carthage jail. This is the dungeon room.
The room where Hyrum and Joseph Smith were killed by the mob.
The window Joseph fell through after he was shot; to the well below.
Outside with the well and window in the background.
The monument of Hyrum and Joseph.

Tennessee Here We Come


St Louis Arch on our way to Tenn.
Mom and dad on the front steps of their house.
I had to try-out the old body jiggler; a blast from my teenage past.
The shack behind the general store that Tonya and I wanted to check out. I hope they didn't mind me using their rocker!
They have some good fudge and onion rings here and things that bring back memories from my childhood.
This high chair is one of them.
We all had to give it a try.
I think Justin wins.

The front door of mom and dad's house has this sign and it's the truth.
Every house in the south has a good many guns inside. This is our brother-in-law's cache.
The sign on the way to the house; we just love the way they say things down there.
One of the many ponds on the way to Muddy Pond Mennonite store.
They have a food store and a leather store next door.
We had to take the bull by the horns!
This is on the porch of the leather store. I love the surrey with the fringe on the top.
The sorghum press.
The sorghum mill.
I made Alan stop at Clear creek, where we used to swim every summer when we visited our grandparents in TN. We remember Rhonda stepping on a broken bottle and a water moccasin swimming right by Debi. They were great memories!
Aunt Lois took us over to Granny and Pa's house to look inside. Pa built it and when my dad was 2 they moved there. He built most of the furniture inside as well.
My great grandma, Samantha Leann Smith, made this butter churn that was in the upstairs bedroom.

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Alan's Trip to Israel


Ba'Hai Garden and Mediterranian from the 10th floor of our hotel (Dan Carmel Hotel)
Map of Caesarea ruins.
The wall and moat stretch for several hundred yards.
These walls were built by the crusaders.
Most of the marble was imported from Greece.
Ruins of Caesarea.
mosaic floor from Roman times.
From the time of Christ. The rich people had a little better mosaics. Here you can also see a remaining marbel pillar column. The main street ran in front of this entrance.
Bath house and spa from the time of the Romans.

Arches!
The far end of the open chariot course can be seen at the top of the picture.
Chariot art work at Caesarea circus.
Haifa and Mediterranean at night.
10th floor looking at Haifa.