Palmyra

After we left Niagara Falls, we crossed over the border back into the US.  It was easily the longest wait we had the entire trip.  It is MUCH harder to get into the United States than it is to leave.
We headed to Palmyra, New York.  We checked into our hotel and headed off to see some sights.
We headed up to the monument at Hill Cumorah. 

From there, we went to the Joseph Smith family farm and toured it.  (We decided to wait until the next day to go to the Sacred Grove.)

We went to the Palmyra Temple and walked around the outside.

And then we went to the Hill Cumorah Pageant. 

We didn’t think we’d see anyone we knew, but we were wrong . .
We noticed a couple that used to live in our ward a whole bunch of years ago.

There were members of the cast greeting the crowd.  The couple that came down our row chatted with us.  They asked us about our trip and we told them that we were taking our daughter back to see her mission.  They told us they had just done the same with their son.  When we asked which mission, they told us it was the same as David’s!  It turned out that their son was David’s trainer and he was there (playing the part of battle Laman.)

What a small world!