Well, it's Sunday morning and our holiday is over. We're Helena, Montana and we need to get home tonight. Lorna's slavedriver will be expecting her in the morning. I could probably pretend I'm at work for a couple of more days. Ahh, probably not. So, on Friday morning we left the Grand Canyon, stopping at viewpoints on the way out not wanting to leave but knowing that we had to tear ourselves away. We headed north through Utah. There was beautiful scenery but we didn't take pictures. I think we wore out our camera at the Grand Canyon. We were in Salt Lake City Friday night. Yesterday we drove up through the southern part of Idaho into Montana. We stopped at a museum on the way. We had seen billboard ads for a Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit so we checked it out. Very interesting. The scroll fragments they had on display honestly didn't look much different than burnt corn flakes but they also had on display Bibles that were printed in the 1500's. Amazing! There were exhibits about people such as John Wycliffe, Tyndale, and Luther, people who gave so much, even their lives so that we could have and read God's Word in our own language. It was a good stop to make.
Well we're going to get some breakfast, do a little bit of shopping, and head home. This will be our last post of our holidays but we will continue to update the blog. Keep checking us out.

Wow!!! It is completely amazing! You walk up to the edge and it doesn't even look real. It doesn't compare to anything you've seen before so it somehow loses credibility. I guess that makes it truly incredible. It's like a painting that's been ridiculously overdone. If seeing the Grand Canyon is not on your list of things to do it needs to be. I've already put "seeing it again" on my list. As I stood there trying to take it all in (and this will probably sound whacked) it was far more than a canyon. I didn't know what, but I knew it was a metaphor. It was far too deep, far too vast, far too intricate to be merely a geographical feature. I was thinking about it more today and I think it's a metaphor of God's extravagance. God wants to give us so much more than we imagine and ask for. I push the limits of my imagination and faith and I ask God for a piece of clay with a little divot pushed into it with my finger and He says "No, I want to give you the Grand Canyon. Just listen for My voice and follow Me and I'll show you." His ways are infinately vast, deep, and beautiful. He wants to give us so much more. That's His love and goodness, His desire to be closer to us.

This place is cool, no guardrails. Don't worry Darlene, I wasn't in danger. It's not that far down.

We took Helicopter tour. It was great. Lorna didn't throw up. She's incredible.

WaTonight we went out for dinner at the Outback Steakhouse. Delicious... This is what we saw when we walked to the parking lot. So, tomorrow we're off to the Grand Canyon. Wahoo! ( Hey, why aren't you guys leaving comments?)

This is the largest piece of the Flagstaff meteor that has been found.

This is the meteor crater east of Flagstaff, Arizona. That's one huge hole. Can't imagine the impact.

Cambridge Ohio...

Hello! We survived New York... And we didn't get too lost getting out of there either! Today we drove through New Jersey, Pennsylvania, a little of West Virginia and into Ohio. The southern part of Pennsylvania is nicer than where we were before. There are several 24 hour Starbucks along the road. We took a hotel with a pool that was only a little bit scummy. Just catching up on some pictures for you and now we are hitting the hay. Tomorrow we will do a long drive. It is REALLY hot here.

OOoh, I just remembered...

Remember Clint telling about the kid that gave him a concussion? Well this is him and his Mom. He is a great guy, aside from knocking our dear Clinton out... Anyway he is trying to get together enough $$ to go to a Military School in Texas to help him get ahead in life... He wants to be a cop. If you want to put $$ into something worthwhile we can hook you up with the guy who is setting things up for Jorge. If you want to put some money into something not so worthwhile give it to me!!!

This scene happens so often... And yet it never ceases to amaze us. This happy shopper was tying up a fair amount of traffic on Interstate 70... Note the back of these Queen size Mattresses are held on by Carefully tied string! Brilliant!!

On the road again - Cowfiguring the GPS

Clint & Laura Duh-Getting Married

The Cow wating for the ceremony to begin

The Cow helping to decorate

Central Park

Clint and Laura took us to Central Park for a picnic. We stopped close to the park at a Deli and got our choice of food. It was cool to be there. The subway is an interesting experience...I think it was really good for us to experience life with Clint and Laura. What ever needs doing has to have a big plan... I saw a guy who just came out of the Target store, He had a few folding chairs(like the kind that go with a card table) they were strapped with string to his back, he was carrying some pillows under one arm and a big square fan in the other hand and trying to catch the subway. We are going to grab some food, more later...

Central Park

July 2

Today we marked off a lot of mileage. We drove from South Dakota to Indiana. While refueling in SD we met the voice of Mater in Cars. We started talking to a very friendly, old man,telling him where we were all going. Read this next part out loud in Mater's voice. "You're going all the way over there and all the way over there. That sounds like fun!" He was very friendly. Cow liked him. There wasn't a whole lot of scenery today. Wisconsin was nice. Lots of trees. We ended the day driving through Chicago. We wanted to get through it so we wouldn't have to deal with all the traffic in the morning. The expressway is just a little different than what we're used to in Calgary. Big highway, multiple toll booths, and a McDonalds right in the middle of the expressway. They are serious about there fast food. John started getting into the Chicago driving. A quarter of the way through Lorna decided to start smoking. Just wait till we get to New York.
Yes we are still having fun.

Sunday, July 1

After spending the night in Sheridan, Wyoming we drove to Belle Fourshe, South Dakota and had lunch with Lorna's Uncle John & Aunt Evelyn. We had a power visit and hopped back in the car and went through a bit of the Black Hills, and toodled by Mount Rushmore. Starbucks have been few and far between, we found one on the way out of Sheridan... Here is hoping for one early in the day tomorrow.

Yellowstone to Cody, Wyoming

The cow met some cool people. When we were driving out of the park we saw a van on the side of the road with a distraught lady beside it. We turned around to see if we could help. Another couple did the same. We ended up taking the lady and her three standard poodles in our very packed car to Cody. The other couple who stopped used to live there so they knew where we could bring her for help. We ended up having a little church service of sorts while waiting for the tow truck guy. Kaleb, Makayla and Grace along with their Grandparents shared their wonderful testimony with us... Its bookworthy. If you are ever in Cody, Wyoming you gotta hear Kaleb's story. This kid loves God so much it oozes out of him. We were blessed.

Saturday June 30th

So today we went through Yellowstone National Park. It was absolutely amazing. A forest fire went through a huge amount of the park in 1988, it is really awesome to see how the new growth has come in. We spent a bit of time walking along a board walk looking at some geysers and "paint pots" (bubbling mud) . We drove about 1/2 way around Yellowstone Lake, it was soooo blue and huge, every once in awhile steam could be seen spewing up from a hole in the ground or between some rocks at the edge of the lake. We did see Old faithful, had to wait an hour for her but it was worth it...