Well, we had our second vacation. We get our new batches of missionaries on a Saturday. 19 days later, on a Thursday, they leave. The next new batch comes in 1.5 days later, on the Saturday. This schedule keeps up all year (except for one three week stretch of down time a year where we don't get a batch). So...the vacations have to be short and (to keep our sanity) away from the MTC. This time the Taylors took us and the Area Medical Adviser and his wife to Laguna. I don't know if Elder Armstrong wrote our friends in Provo yet, but I'm pretty sure the Boehme's were serving their last mission in Nauvoo at the same time that Barry and Vira Johnson were. It's really quite a small world. Here's some pics of Hidden Valley Springs Resort:

This is Elder Armstrong trying to get a group picture and not quite making it back in time!

This is all of us against a tree root!:

This is Abraham, an 81 year old retired army man. We met him and his family at dinner one night. While you eat lunch & dinner there is a group of four people who play and sing old pop hits...they were very good!...and Abraham was up dancing while they were singing. Quite an interesting fellow to talk to. We are going to go visit him and his daughter-in-law on our next vacation if we can.

I know you're probably feeling sorry for us by now, but what the heck. SOMEONE has to sacrifice themselves to go on a mission!!

On the way home we saw a funeral procession:

 and a fire:

 Which clogged up the traffic even more than usual:

Oh well. Vacation over!

Hope you enjoyed the pictures!