Val & Collette Cook Family

Went to the Trenton branch the members were so nice the Holden family invited us to dinner. In the evening we went to Adam-ondi-Ahman and read scriptures.

We slept in Zion. The visitor center was very spiritual. We felt the spirit of the early saints. After lunch we went to the Arabia Steamboat Museum. Camilla was right it was like a Walmart in the 1850's. On our way to camp we went to Far West and saw the temple site. The day before we saw then new Kansas City temple. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

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Another wonderful day we went to the temple early then to the sites. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

We are in the most wonderful place on earth. I love the spirit here. Here we are at Heber C Kimball's home. Nauvoo temple

We went to the Lincoln Museum. It was so well done. Here we are in front of the log home. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

We had a traveling day with a slow start. We went canoeing kayaking and paddle boating on the pond that we camped at. It was called hideaway camp. It was a family run place lots of fun things to do. After boating we went to shower and swim. We didn't leave till noon and had a 6 hour drive. The drive turned out longer because of slow traffic for construction. We went trough a corner of Indiana and a time zone. Illinois has a lot if corn fields so we took a picture. We got off the freeway for gas then a book store and discovered that we were on historic route 66. That was fun. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

After church we drove to Richland Michigan where Phinias Wilcot Cook lived when he joined the church. We found bus parents graves. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Henry Ford created a place where you could go back in time. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

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What a wonderful day. We went to the church sites. There is such a spiritual feeling here. At the end of the day we had dinner with Rosida and Clyde Haacke. It was so nice to visit with them. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

We took a ferry to Isle au Haut and backed 4 miles to a campground on the island. This is the shelter we pitched our tent in. Oh did I tell you we could have ridden the ferry right to our camp or had the ferry drop our gear but as Jared put it "that would be boring. "

We decided to stay in Acadia instead of going to Cutler. We had great wet walk. We climbed up Beehive. Then had lunch. When lunch was over I saw the clouds getting darker then I heard a noise it was the rain coming. We got soaked. It was great fun. It was Brianne's birthday she had a great day. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

We went to Salem to learn about what happened there. Our ancestor Susannah Martian one of the twenty convicted and killed. There was a memorial for them. There was a peaceful felling there. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Today was a nice day.  We went to church with Ellen and a great time visiting with them. a couch what is that  They have internet so we were able to get stuff done on the blog.  Check out the new pictures.

Leaving New York. Mystic Seaport in Conneticut . It is Living history town showing what a shipping community is like. An old Ford The Flag that flew over Fort Sumter at the start of the Civil War. We made a slight change of plans and ended up at Ellen and Brian's. We went through six states today. New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. Welcome to New England.

We went to the Statue of Liberty. It was so amazing. We then took the ferry to New York found the place to buy broadway plays we got tickets to Mary Popins. It was wonderful. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone