Dallas Trip Part 1-BYU Game

At the End of October we got to fly to Dallas to be with friends and family. We'll post more on that, but I'll post on the Game.

BYU and TCU had a big Friday night game on ESPN in Dallas Cowboys Stadium. Going to the Stadium is worth the ticket price alone. It cost 1.3 billion dollars to build. Its got a giant video board that has to be close to the biggest in the world. It holds over a hundred thousand people.

The lobbys are posh and its a great stadium to walk around to just enjoy the opulence. It has a retractable roof that we got to watch open up:

It was fun to go with Branagan and Claire who we also stayed with in Dallas.



This is my lovely wife, and our boy In Utero.

Oh and there was a game. BYU opened up by giving TCU 14 points in the first quarter and they lost by ten.BYU has 3 turnovers and some really bad punting that doomed them. This is their 4th straight loss to TCU. I hope one day in my life time BYU can beat TCU again. TCU was unfriendly to BYU fans, didn't announce BYU at the beginning of the game and showed only TCU stuff on the jumbo tron. All the BYU fans started booing the jumbo tron when they showed the TCU cheerleaders tussle their pom-poms every 5 minutes in the 4th. Overall it just stinks to lose to a team that has been so good recently.

We ended up wandering around the stadium most of the third quarter. At least BYU scored more points than when we flew out for the 2008 game. Here is one of the last plays that ended up making sports center for BYU

I guess there is always next time...

Part 5: Independence, Mo

On our way west before the wasteland (known as Kansas) and the promised land (Colorado), we made a stop in Independence, MO to see more sites. The LDS Church was located in this area in the 1830's. Harry Truman also was from here.

We stopped at Liberty Jail where church leaders were held and sections of the D & C were revealed:
The Harry S. Truman Presidential Library:

The beautiful Temple of the Community of Christ Church:
And the camper of a man that has a lot to say and whose hypereligiosity is probably a sign of something for which treatment may be advised. He is in front of the Temple Lot:
We did a lot of driving on this trip and Sam was a trooper. Cheyn would sit in the back and try to entertain him while I drove. Cheyney took this picture of our little thinker as we drove out of town:

Ode to Joni Mitchell

Sittin' in a park in Paris, France
Reading the news and it sure looks bad...


Met a red neck on a grecian isle

From Samos Lipsi Patmos

He did the goat dance very well

From Samos Lipsi Patmos

He gave me back my smile.

From Samos Lipsi Patmos

Athens

Hey were safe and finishing up our two days in Athens. Here are some (but not all for sure) of our pictures. Were having a great time, and we'll blog more later!


PS AS of Sept 18 weve uploaded all of our Athens pıctures to the slıdeshow (to get some space on our camera). We are ın Turkey and wıll dd pıctures of the Greek Islands and Turkey when we get a bıt more tıme. Were happy healthy and a lıttle sunburnt.

Camping Weekend

Were about to head on another vacation to Utah tomorrow morning, but we just wanted to post some pictures from on our fun Memorial day get away in Helen, GA. We went with the Hills and Thompsons.

Helen is a town in North Georgia that has a Swiss theme. There is a nearby state park with a waterfall, lake, and nice camping areas. We went camping for three days and enjoyed our time with great people and cute kids. We enjoyed getting to know the Thompsons. Hopefully a better recap will be found at the blogs linked to above (or this one) and some more fun pictures from tubing and other events. What FUN!!! Our buns are still numb from tubbing down the Chatahoochee River.