What We Did This Weekend:
Temple Trip with Friends
So by now you should all come to expect the monthly blog about our trip to the temple. For the most part, this blog is about our weekend adventures (since our weekly adventures are light on the "adventure" and heavy on the "weak"), and when the closest temple requires over seven hours of driving, it naturally becomes the highlight of that weekend.
We've made the offer many times to many friends. If you haven't heard the offer, here it is: We'll gladly watch your kids while you attend a session in the temple if you hang around and wait for us. Better yet, if there's room, we could even carpool.
Many of our friends find it difficult to attend the temple because they don't know what to do with their kids. They feel it would be a burden to leave them home with family and friends for almost ten hours. But you don't have to leave them home. Bring them along. Come with us and we'll play with them while you're in the temple. And then when you're through and we're in the temple, you'll have a great chance to teach your kids about the temple and to help them come to love the house of the Lord and to look forward to the day when they can enter and serve as well.
This weekend some of our friends finally took us up on the offer and it was awesome. Since our ward's "Halloween Party" was Saturday evening, we had two choices: We could either get up really, really early Saturday morning to be able to be back in time, or we could spend Friday night in St. Louis at a hotel. The great deals at Hotwire.com made the sleep-over option possible.
After work on Friday our friends picked us up. We threw our bags in the back of their vehicle and hopped in the back seat next to their little baby girl who would be our tiny travel companion for the trip. We stopped for dinner in Columbia at Applebee's (you already know what we had), then continued on to the Holiday Inn near the airport in the St. Louis area. By the time we arrived it was pretty late, so we went straight to bed.
The funny thing about teaching early morning seminary is that 6:30am is considered sleeping in. So, after "sleeping in" we ran down to the fitness center for a quick 30 minutes of cardio (I know. We're freaks.) before showering and meeting up with our friends at 7:30am.
The temple was only about 15 minutes from our hotel. Our friends went in for the 8:15 session and left us with their daughter who, lucky for us, was awake and as cute as ever. It was just us in the waiting area next to the Distribution Center for the first 30 minutes. Then other people starting to show up. The longer we were there, the more the kids in the room began to outnumber the adults. Our friends were back from their session in no time, and then we took our turn in the temple.
Two stops on our way home (St. Louis Bread Company for lunch and the Outlet mall in Warrenton for shopping) put us back in Kansas City by about 6:40pm. The ward party started at 6:00pm, so Brookie and I put on our Apple Genius costumes, put our trunk-or-treat candy in a bowl and left for the Stake Center. We got there in time for dinner, some friendly visiting, and the trunk-or-treat. We were too busy this year to be able to do anything fun with our trunk, but we had a fun time regardless. As usual, there was a chili contest and our favorite turned out to be the winner of "Most Healthy" (go figure), and it wasn't even chili. It was taco soup. And we want the recipe.
And that's what we did this weekend!
We've made the offer many times to many friends. If you haven't heard the offer, here it is: We'll gladly watch your kids while you attend a session in the temple if you hang around and wait for us. Better yet, if there's room, we could even carpool.
Many of our friends find it difficult to attend the temple because they don't know what to do with their kids. They feel it would be a burden to leave them home with family and friends for almost ten hours. But you don't have to leave them home. Bring them along. Come with us and we'll play with them while you're in the temple. And then when you're through and we're in the temple, you'll have a great chance to teach your kids about the temple and to help them come to love the house of the Lord and to look forward to the day when they can enter and serve as well.
This weekend some of our friends finally took us up on the offer and it was awesome. Since our ward's "Halloween Party" was Saturday evening, we had two choices: We could either get up really, really early Saturday morning to be able to be back in time, or we could spend Friday night in St. Louis at a hotel. The great deals at Hotwire.com made the sleep-over option possible.
After work on Friday our friends picked us up. We threw our bags in the back of their vehicle and hopped in the back seat next to their little baby girl who would be our tiny travel companion for the trip. We stopped for dinner in Columbia at Applebee's (you already know what we had), then continued on to the Holiday Inn near the airport in the St. Louis area. By the time we arrived it was pretty late, so we went straight to bed.
The funny thing about teaching early morning seminary is that 6:30am is considered sleeping in. So, after "sleeping in" we ran down to the fitness center for a quick 30 minutes of cardio (I know. We're freaks.) before showering and meeting up with our friends at 7:30am.
The temple was only about 15 minutes from our hotel. Our friends went in for the 8:15 session and left us with their daughter who, lucky for us, was awake and as cute as ever. It was just us in the waiting area next to the Distribution Center for the first 30 minutes. Then other people starting to show up. The longer we were there, the more the kids in the room began to outnumber the adults. Our friends were back from their session in no time, and then we took our turn in the temple.
Two stops on our way home (St. Louis Bread Company for lunch and the Outlet mall in Warrenton for shopping) put us back in Kansas City by about 6:40pm. The ward party started at 6:00pm, so Brookie and I put on our Apple Genius costumes, put our trunk-or-treat candy in a bowl and left for the Stake Center. We got there in time for dinner, some friendly visiting, and the trunk-or-treat. We were too busy this year to be able to do anything fun with our trunk, but we had a fun time regardless. As usual, there was a chili contest and our favorite turned out to be the winner of "Most Healthy" (go figure), and it wasn't even chili. It was taco soup. And we want the recipe.
And that's what we did this weekend!
Sounds like you had a great time! We want to go to the temple the Friday after Thanksgiving. Are you interested in coming with us and playing with our boys? Unfortunately, we'd have to take two cars, unless you have a minivan I don't know about...
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