Another Travel Day...

Today was just another long day on the bus. The breakfast was much better kept up and I actually got to eat something. Then onto the bus for I think it was a 7 hour drive to Ohio. We had the occasional rest stop, and I just sat in the very back of the bus or laid down on the floor. This routine was broken up by a visit to the John Johnson farm, which was really really cool. This place was magnificent; the Johnsons had been saving up for ten years to build this home, and when they did, they built it fancy. They used bright colored paint, like teal and coral, to brighten up the rooms (even though they just painted the molding and left the walls white) and even did a design on the molding in the dining room. The home was also the HQ of the Church for the year that Joseph Smith lived there. Upstairs held Joseph's office, where the vision that we know as D&C 76 was given. Heavenly Father and His Son appeared there, and the testimony of Joseph and Sidney Ridgon in section 76 is one of my favorite scriptures. This house is also the setting for the well known incident where Joseph was ripped from the bed, tarred and feathered, his son dieing from exposure because of the door left open, then delivering a sermon the next day, amidst the many wounds in his body and mob members in the congregation. It was a really cool site, and the sister missionary was funny. Then we drove (no surprise) the rest of the way into Ohio. When we hit Milton(?), the bus pulled into our rooms and we dropped our stuff off before going to another buffet for dinner. It wasn't bad food, and I love the group I am hanging out with. Its a hardcore laugh fest. After dinner, we walked to the dollar store next to the buffet and messed with the cheap items on sale. Outside, it started to rain, and when it rains out here, it pours. In less then a minute, there was probably a half of an inch of water running down the streets. At this motel, there is a gigantic pool, probably the size of a regular public pool, with fountains shooting into the water and enough room for all 151 of us on the trip. Of course I had to go swim and we played sharks and minnows, marco polo, and helped build a five man tower, where there was Mindy Erickson, Kelsha and McCall from NS, and Luke on each other's shoulders then Tyler Tuttle would try and get then all on his shoulder. That was fun. Then McCall had a underwater camera, so we were messing with that too. Mostly, pool fun is just messing around, and we do a lot of that on this trip. Now its off to bed with already asleep roommates:)