Monday, April 27, 2009

Last part of my Missouri trip

So the funeral was really good. She wasn't LDS so it was different from what I'm use to. I cried my eyes out. Janice sang how great thou art and it was beautiful made me cry even harder. Dorthy looked good. My mom said it was the best make-up job she had ever seen. After the funeral we went to this ladys house name Beta. She was really good friends with Dorthy when they lived in Missouri. She had made us lunch. It was very interesting food. She made three different types of sandwitches. One was chopped up bologna and who knows what, another was a cream cheese with green olives, and then just a cheese sandwitch. It pretty much looked like nacho cheese on bread. I didn't like any of them and I couldn't eat them because they were really nasty. There was also a potato salad that was really gross and cole slaw which tasted weird. So I had potato chips for lunch. After that We drove out to the grave again to see it one last time. Then we drove out to Whiteman Air force base where we got to go in and look around because Janice's brother use to be in the navy or something like that. I saw a steath bomber. It was pretty cool. After that I hung out with my new friends Patrick (janice's nephew who is 19) and Richard (Janices nephew who is 29) They are brothers and really funny! We were going to go swimming but instead we just sat around and talked. Then the three of us plus my mom, Janice and her sister and brother in law went to dinner at a bbq place. It was really good! and we ate and laughed a lot! Then I went and played pin ball with patrick and richard for a minute and then I went back to the motel to go to sleep. We got up the next day checked out of our hotel and went to tour Missouri. We went to the Independece visitor center. Which was really cool. Then to Liberty Jail, that was fun to learn about but I was kind of dissapointed in the actual jail. Then we went to Far West and it was so pretty and calming there. Then we headed out to Adam-ondi-aham (sorry if I spelt that wrong) and it was so pretty there. We were walking around and it started raining and then it started pouring and then hailing and then it was hailing the size of quarters. It was so cool and it just made the place that much more spiritual and exciting. We sat there and watched it for a good half our or so then we left. Then we drove all through the night to denver colorado. I was co-pilot and had to keep the drives awake and so I pulled an all nighter. There was a ton of fog and you couldn't see anything. It was the first time I have ever seen it that thick. We stopped just outside of denver in parker where we slept for like three hours and then got up and went to breakfast with Janice's Sister Anita and her family which is Patrick and Richard and his wife Trish and their cute son Ryder. Then we headed home. It started raining and snowing and it was really pretty. This trip was really good and I made lots of new friends. My favorite friends that I made were Ronnie who was three and he lives in Georgia and has a southern drawl. My favorite thing that he said was "its Dead" and "wheres my mama" he is a pretty fun kid! Then there was Jordan and Oliva who are Ronnie's older sisters. They are way cute! They are 9 and 7. Then Patrick was my buddie and we just goofed off and made fun of each other the whole trip. I'm so glad I got to go and be apart of the funeral. Janice's family is one of the coolest familes I have ever met. They are a little wild and crazy but they are way nice!

1 comment:

crazyhorse said...

Wish I could have been with you. I have a neat cd of Adam-ondi-Ahman. I will show it to you if you want. Also lots of pictures of Far West and Independence with Grandpa in them. Grandma H.