Vacation Part 3

Finally. And it's a long one. Sorry.

Saturday we went to Watkin's Glen. It's a state park. It was really cool and we had lots of fun there. This picture is of the canyon that we walked through.

There were tons of stairs we had to climb. They were made of rock with a little rock wall all along the way. It was so pretty.

We are standing up at the top by the waterfall. The trail went behind the water. Corgin loved that.


This picture is not near as cool as the real thing. Watkin's Glen was beautiful.


Corgin loved getting down and walking and playing with rocks and plants.

This pic shows how much plant life grows on the rocks. I thought it was neat.

Our little family with Grandpa and Grandma Hamblin.

Before going to Watkin's Glen, we attended a session at the Palmyra Temple. The temple has three windows that were originally all stained glass. President Hinckley decided that the middle one needed to be clear, so they changed it. Now the middle window is clear and it looks over to the Sacred Grove.

We took these pictures Sunday. Luckily there was a meeting and the gates were open so we could come get pics while in our Sunday best.

After church we went to the Hill Cumorah Visitor's Center. The Christus is visible though windows and can be seen from the road.

I love this picture of Corgin. He's feeling the hole is Christ's foot while looking up at him. It is one of Clint and I's favorites pics from our vacation.

Before we took off for home on Monday, we went to the Grandin Building. This is where the Book of Mormon was printed for the first time. These pictures depict what it would have looked like when first entering the building in the time of Joseph Smith.

This picture is on the second floor where the printing took place.

This is the machine that E. B. Grandin had purchased and made it possible for 5,000 copies of the Book of Mormon to be printed back then. Even with this machine it was a big task to print that many books. In the big cities it would take about 17 months to do this job. Grandin accomplished it in 7 months, with the first book off the press 11 days before the church was officially organized.

The book in the case next to us is a first edition Book of Mormon.

These next pictures are all of Corgin. He kept us laughing a lot of the time. He's a funny little guy.

This is where he slept at night. The couch was a hide a bed where Clint and I slept. I thought he might be spoiled by sleeping so close to us here that when we came back home he might not sleep in his own bedroom. Luckily, he was very happy to see his bed. As soon as he saw it he said "night, night" and he's good as before.

This is Corgin in Grandma's chair. Whenever she left the room he thought it was his job to steal her chair. He'd climb up in it and rock. One night he was all wound up, so he was climbing up in the chair then climbing down the side, running around and then climbing up into the chair again.

When we were at Watkin's Glen Corgin found some leaves. He used them to tickle his face. He had so much fun doing this.

Finally a picture where he would look at the camera. He used to always give us the cheesiest grin when we had the camera out. Now he tries to avoid looking or smiling at all costs. The little stinker!

While we were at the Hill Cumorah Visitor's Center we watched the Joseph Smith movie. Since we had our connections there, we had the theater room to ourselves so we just let Corgin run around and have fun. Well, he somehow managed to get himself into a pickle. We laughed pretty hard, took some pictures, then decided we should rescue him. He's a silly boy.

Corgin loved playing out in Grandpa and Grandma's yard. The grass was so green there and the weather was pretty nice during our whole stay. All around, it made for a great vacation!

Thanks Grandpa and Grandma.