Thanksgiving Trip part 1

For Thanksgiving this year our family took a road trip up to visit Carley's family, who recently moved to Arkansas. Aaron, Carley, and I went to high school and college together. She married Dustin the same summer Aaron and I got married and we hung out as married students, in Rexburg, until Aaron and Dustin graduated and we all had to move away.

It was great to get the families together for an extended visit.

My family left Monday morning and drove north through Texas for six hours and then headed through Oklahoma and then on up into northwest Arkansas. We arived at their house Monday evening. The kids did a great job in the car. Our family had only seen the first hour of the drive before. The remaining 10 hours were all new territory for us. Oklahoma had very bumpy roads and was our least favorite part of the drive. We really like the hills, rivers, and trees in north west Arkansas. I bet it is beautiful when all the trees have leaves.

While visiting we went to a great Native American Museum. Talmage was afraid of this stuffed bear and we had to turn him around and back him up so that we could take this picture. After it was done he ran to the other side of the room to be as fare away from it as possible. Anya loved the bear and kept petting it and trying to shake its hand. We had to keep reminding her that we aren't supposed to touch things in museums.



Outside the museum they had this teepee. The kids enjoyed going in it as well as sifting though the mulch to find an arrowhead to take home.

It was a bit chilly (in the 50's) and windy for our family this day so we had to break out the coats. Talmage and Evalyn stuck together when ever possible. They say they think they might get married when they grow up.


The next day it was warmer and we went up to Belle Vista so see the Glass Chapel. We also found this lake up on the hill.

Talmage and Evalyn again.

Anya and Lucy climbing the rocks. They had fun together but were not stuck to each other like Talmage and Evalyn.

Our family squinting into the sun in front of the lake. It was good to see blue water again.

I'll post pictures of the Glass Chapel in the next post.