Provo Adventure

We loved this temple.  

The woodwork, the pioneer details, the history.

If I were to get married all over again, this temple would be a top contender.

Its simply stunning!

We'd come down the night before and were grateful to Uncle Matt and 

family for dinner and for being so willing to put us up for the night so we 

could get there bright and early for our 7:15am ticket time. 

As a little girl, I remember going through the South Jordan Temple open house, but the only thing I really remember is putting on the booties, so as we were getting started and putting on our booties, I had to chuckle when Hollie said "this is my favorite part" -

 - but I'm pretty sure she changed her mind, so many beautiful rooms. 

 Hannah never did get over her love of the mural rooms.

 After the temple tour we visited the Crandall Printing Museum.  Its this little hole-in-the-wall print museum run by little, old men.  The door was still locked when we arrived at 9am, and after knocking to no avail, we were about to leave when our guide showed up, surprised to see us.  The tour is usually two hours long, but we only had an hour, so we got a slightly condensed version of the history of printing. They told the story through the printing of scriptures, starting with cuneiform, then onto the Gutenberg press.     

We learned how the typeset was created, made and used, the composition of the ink and 

 how it was applied, really the whole process beginning to end.  

See how enthralled they were?

Hyrum and Hannah even got pull the press and see it how it worked.

But our favorite part was when he poured hot printers lead into

 the mold and created a letter "B" right in front of our eyes. 

They had a replica of a Gutenberg Bible on display.  Hannah and Hyrum didn't understand the significance or rarity of the original one we saw in DC, so now it was like a light bulb went on.  I love that!

We then saw a replica of a colonial press, similar to what would

 have printed the Declaration of Independence, 

Then onto the Book of Mormon press. I can't remember if 

it was the original or just one of the same model.

This time I got to pull the press.  Its harder than it looks.

It was amazing how much the process hadn't changed in four-hundred years.

Here, he demonstrated more of the bookbinding process, which was fascinating. 

For a souvenir, our guide gave us a printed page that when folded consisted of the first 16 pages of the book of Mormon.  It was great tour, even held Gavin's attention for the most part, and we learned so much!  Highly recommend, I'd even like to go back and get the full two hour tour.

Then, we were off onto our next grand adventure to the Bean Museum at BYU with Cousins!

Did I mention it was Gavin's birthday?

 He loved celebrating it with Jori.

A-kuna-mata!

 

Loved us some Shasta.

 I remember this liger when she was at the Hoogle zoo on display.

We'd had a very full morning and ended our adventures with lunch at a fun restaurant with Sam and Ariel.  The kids never get to enjoy the novelty of a sit down restaurant, so this was a real treat, plus the delicious homemade root beer. MMmmm!

We then headed home to get Hyrum back in time for dance rehearsal 

and put the finishing touches on Gavin's cake for his celebration later that night.