Mom called this morning. She was curious how our trip to the capital went yesterday. Well, I guess you could say it was an adventure.
Originally Mom had planned to go with us. Rachelle and Bethany had the opportunity to be pages for our representative. Both Jason and I served as pages when we were in high school, and the girls were exciting about serving with some friends who were also going that day. Mom was going to drive up early in the morning and ride with us; I though we would take the whole crew, and we were all excited about maybe getting to tour the newly-opened dome.
The first hint of trouble was the weather forecast: snow. Although the snowfall was to be less than the week before, I still wasn't crazy about driving in any snow, and Mom was even more reluctant. She decided not to come up. Because of that and the bitter cold, the younger girls stayed home as well. But Bethany, Rachelle, Samuel and I headed on up. We parked and walked toward the building. As we neared the closest entranced we noticed the steps were stilled covered with snow. Okay, maybe on around. Nope. The next entrance looked the same. By this time we were freezing and I was beginning to worry about Samuel. So we quickened our steps and headed around to look for yet another entrance. About then the sidewalk ended. What next?! A tromp through the snow, down some not-cleared steps, and we finally found the right entrance: the north-side, basement entrance. Who would have guessed?
The rest of the day followed a similar pattern. A bottle of water that had to be payed for by a stranger, a crying baby, a missed lunch plan, a car that wouldn't start, and to top it off, a red light accidentally run! But looking on the bright side, the girls had fun paging, they got to go to the top of the dome, we had fun hanging out with friends and we got the singing tour guide, and no tickets or accidents. Thank You, Lord, for watching over us!! And now, I seriously need a nap!
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