During the two weeks leading up to fall break, I prepped the children by picking up literature and media for everyone. We started listening to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer on audiobook in the car and we became experts at speaking in drippy southern Mark Twain accents. There is a navigation app called Ways, where one can opt for their directions to be given to you by C3PO, a boy band, Mr T (I pity the fool who makes a u turn!), etc. we joked that Sam Clemens should be an option, and after that, anytime someone needed directions, we delivered them in overly descriptive southern drawls that rolled slowly off the tongue. Because getting directions from Mark Twain would be like using a thesaurus dredged in molasses.
Everyone got an age appropriate history of Sam Clemens dose of Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher and Huckleberry Finn, and for the long drive we watched several film adaptations of the books.
And this was super fun, I found a lego version of The Celebrated Frog of Calaveras County. Hilarious! Found here:
Two Family Home Evenings were devoted to the Joseph Smith Prophet of the Restoration film and a selection of other publications from the church video library. We read excerpts from Joseph Smith History and Doctrine and Covenants.
For lodging, I booked the Marydale Inn b&b in Jamesport Mo, and the Nauvoo Family Cabins in Illinois.
I studied a Sunday school lesson on Adam Ondi Ahman for a discussion there.
I kept having this thought that I wish my nephews from California were coming with us on this trip, particularly Amy's oldest, Parker, who turns 18 in a couple weeks. I felt like I should call and invite them, but was hesitant because how likely is it to be able to pull the boys from school and put them on last minute flights to Missouri 4 days later?
The feeling that I should invite them persisted, so the next day I followed the prompting and called my sister at 6am and told her age needs to send one or some of her boys out to join us.
She said it sounded dreamy but obviously was highly impossible with all of their commitments and the expense.
And then she called me the next day and said, "I coming. I'm booking flights for Parker, Tyler, and I. We'll see you Saturday!" I did some last minute rearranging of cabin and inn reservations and it all worked out. Because of the trouble I ran into rearranging our reservations to accommodate 3 more people (we ended up calling a friend of the innkeeper who has an air bnb) I ran out of time to read up on a few of our destinations, but we decided to wing it and play those stops by ear. It really was a great trip. I want to go back soon. So much more to do and see!
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