WHEN: July 1999
WITH: Mom and Dad
WHY: Church history tour
MEMORIES:
-First trip alone with mom and dad (Diana was in Australia/New Zealand for the summer).
-IT WAS SO HOT. The whole time.
-Steamboat Arabia museum - that was pretty cool. A steamboat sunk in the Mississippi River and ended up being covered by mud, etc. as the river changed course; everything was perfectly preserved...the museum was full of all the goods that the steamboat was carrying: clothes, tools, food, toys, books, etc.-Various church sites including: Liberty Jail, Independence, Carthage Jail, Far West, Haun's Mill, Nauvoo, and others, I'm sure.
-Beginning of Oregon trail site(s)
-Went to an Amish community (communities). I remember eating one of the best meals of my life at a restaurant there. It was a chicken sandwich and the homemade bun was amazing.
-RLDS church visitor's center/temple
-Hallmark factory
-We went to an amusement park, Worlds of Fun, one day.
-Harry Truman home/library
-Kansas City Royals baseball game
-Hannibal, Missouri: Mark Twain's childhood home, watched a play, went into the caves.
At Steamboat Arabia
Dad and I went on this roller coaster, "The Mamba" countless times. It was really tall, and really fast.
Mom likes the water rides. I'm sure it felt good in that heat!
Tom Sawyer Fence
In the Mark Twain caves. I just kept thinking of those scenes from the Jonathon Taylor Thomas movies and was scared that I would get lost in them. The tour guide kept teasing me too, I did not like that.
