The Adventure Begins

The last 5 weeks have been very busy. It all started with our farewell talks in our ward in SLC on April 25th. When we got home from church our real estate agent called us and told us she had a full price offer. By Thursday we had hammered out an agreement and that started the ball rolling towards the mouth of the cave with us in the cave. (see Indiana Jones the first one) We then had to get everything moved that we wanted to keep to Mt Pleasant because we only had the 8th and the 9th available to us for an estate sale. The McAdams decided that they wanted to buy most of the furniture we were going to sell, so we only had household items and stuff that you wind up owning but not needing after 18 years in the same place. Even our kids did not want most of the things. Well the sale went on and surprisingly most things sold. I only had to take about 2 trailer loads to DI. Elle's picture got uploaded by accident but she is so pretty she gets to stay. Next we had to get the house cleaned. That took about a week for Tracy the gal that has cleaned our house for 10 years and 2 other people she brought with her. We closed on the 19th. We took a load in the Xterra to Mt. Pleasant on the 20th. We then drove back to SLC and we slept in the house for the last time the night of the 20th they bought our bed. The 21st we tended Kimball and then drove to Mt. Peasant with another load in the Xterra. We went by way of Nephi because they are resurfacing the road between Fairview and Thistle Junction. A couple of miles outside of Nephi the care starts really running poorly. Chris has to finish the story in the next post.

Sunday in Otavalo

Sunday found us at church at 8:00 am and on the front row of the chaple. We were all asked to bear our testimonies in Spanish and of course the Norman curse affected the four of us. The Spirit was really strong as we met with a large groupe of Otavalanian Indians.

Ecuador and More

It's Wednesday night and we leave Otavalo in the morning. We are sad to be leaving such a wonderful place. We arrived late Friday and got up and went to the market. See pictures. It's a wonderful, wild and interesting market. Lots of textiles. Mom bought a funky sweater.

Then we went up the mountain to the school that Wally is here to help with some expansion plans. That is the picture at the top of the blog.

As I explained in the video, Shortly after Thanksgiving I caught a bad case of beadboarditist. The only known cure is to put up beadboard until the symptoms stop. So for the last month I have been putting up beadboard at our house in Mt. Pleasant and of course painting. I think things turned out real cute. Friday morning we leave for Ecuador and Machupichu, Peru. Wish us un buien vijaje. I can't spell in Spanish or English.

Now for a video???

The next thing I need to learn to do is upload a video?? Here is one from my new mini camcorder used last night for the first time at Kirstin's birthday dinner. This one I uploaded. Now I have to figure out how to link to you tube. Help!!!!!!

Dad's experiment with uploading a picture

Next we are going to learn how to upload a picture to share with you all. This is one Ginny took and shared with us all from Thanksgiving down in Mt Pleasant. How did I do???

Mom and Dad start their techno-peasant adventure

As we begin to think about leaving on a mission, we decided we would learn how to blog so as to keep in touch with you all and have a place where you could checkup on us from time to time. This means we are going to come out of the stone age and become geeksters. (I made that word up) It is the opposite of techno-peasant. This is a test to see if we have mastered the first step, creating a blog??????