February Activites

We started the month by being together (except for Cameron who was on the road that day to St. George) on Gaven's birthday and going to see the Harlem Globetrotters. They were as entertaining as ever and Connor and Payton were thrilled to be there.

Some changes are taking place around us so it was time to document them. The old Wahlquist Jr. High where I and all our kids went to school is being torn down. The new school has been functioning for a couple of years now so this site next to BDO on 1200 West is being cleared.

Also homes are being built to the north of us in what had always been open fields. It will never look the same.

The following week was Valentines Day. We had our Sunday dinner at our house and played games. Cindy and I always look forward to the Sundays when we have the whole family together.

A few weeks latter we decided to spend a weekend in Provo to go see a BYU basketball game. It turned into a time to also see a few other things. Nic and Shannon and their kids stayed with us the first night. We always would take the kids when they were young to a hotel in the winter so they could go swimming and this is now extended to the grandkids.

The next morning Cindy and I went to see the Provo Tabernacle Temple open house. We did it first thing in the morning since we did not have reserved tickets and it worked out just fine. It really was wonderful to see the work in changing the building that had been destroyed by fire and turning it into a wonderful temple. The last time we had been in the building was maybe 30 years ago at a friend's graduation ceremony.

After the tour we then went back to the hotel and decided to take the kids to the BYU campus and the Bean Natural Sciences Museum. This has changed since Cindy and I went there years ago. It has great exhibits which we all enjoyed.

There was one wall about butterflys and the large butterfly was a mosaic made up of various butterflys.

There was one room that was set aside and had some of Elder Packard's bird sculptures. They were quite amazing.

I don't know if Connor knew what to make of the lion scene.

After the museum Nic and Shannon headed home. We decided to go see where Cindy lived her last year at school and where I would visit her on the weekends. Then we went to what was my language training mission in 1974 which was a building across the street from the brick oven. This is where the German and the Afrikaans missionaries stayed and studied. It did not have a handicapped ramp back then.

 We then went to eat and then on to the basketball game. It was a fun time. Two days earlier BYU had played San Diego in San Diego and won by a few points. Tonight they were playing the same team and the game was not even close.