Manti Mormon Miracle Pageant

We got up yesterday morning and drove down to Manti. We stopped at the cemetery in Ephraim and Spencer showed me where his great-grandparents and some other relatives were buried. Then we drove the rest of the way to Manti, got some lunch, and went to the 12:30 temple session there. Totes awesome! I love the inside of the Manti temple! It looks way cool and has a lot more color than I was expecting. Especially in the all the rooms for the Endowment session. The walls are way cool! But I like the architecture of the inside the most. It reminded me of something my mom would really like.

We were staying the night there with Grandpa Wallace's cousin Carol. She was so awesome! She let us hang around her place and helped us get the best seats in the house. She's been doing this for years and has picked out the best spots for seats. We just had to go down a little early to stake our claim :) (We saved almost 40 seats there! Carol takes big groups down.)

We did a little exploring too. We found a candy shop and got some candy (obviously) and ice-cream! We were also trying to wave at cars that drove past us while we were enjoying our ice-cream... but we only got one guy to wave back. 

Dinner was good! The locals do a lot of cool stuff for the pageant, and I ate so much it felt like Thanksgiving at Grandma B's! But we made it to the pageant, had Carol's expertise in finding a good parking spot that was close and could still make a fast get-away, and then we enjoyed seeing the cast members walking around and talking to everyone. 

Spencer missed this one. Our other picture didn't actually turn out. But it was still cool.

Us with Carol. We owe her! She is awesome!

The pageant was great! I really liked how they did the story and incorporated so much about liberty and freedom being a blessing from God in the American continent. (The girl from Bountiful who sang the National Anthem was flipping amazing! **sidenote**) They talked about Captain Moroni and then George Washington and then the Mormon Battalion. They tied it all together a lot better than I did just there. I only cried a couple times. I was crying right at the start though because they depict the first vision. I'm just a cry baby.

We weren't too tired afterwards, but the traffic is apparently ridiculous. So we stayed at Carol's and drove early the next morning. We made back for church with plenty of time to spare. We just crashed really hard after church.