Heja Sverige!: June 2008

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Gone, but not forgotten

Farewell photo before the girls left for Utah

Universal City Walk with King Kong in the back

More unsafe activities (no helmet required)

Can you find the handprints in the carpet? Making sure we wont' forget them!

Sara & Lovisa first days in Omaha

Friday 27 June

We visited Winter Quarters (as it says on the sign " Mormon trail center at historic Winter Quarters").

At the visitors center we went on a tour and got to dress up as pioneers and pull the handcart a bit.

We also sat on a bed like the ones they slept on when going by boat over the sea. As you see we're five persons sitting on the bed and that's actually how many might share a bed on a trip. But they obviously slept in shifts.

Then we went to the cemetery across the street where many of the pioneers who died in Winter Quarters were buried. About 400 persons were buried here.

Here are some information about the pioneers and the cemetery.

Statue of a man and his wife burying their little child who had died. It says on the signs we're standing on that there's (if I remember it right) a child and 7 other pioneers buried there, underneath the statue. Close by is also a sign with names and age of persons buried in the cemetery.

Here, behind the statue, are the only original pioneer graves that you can still see.

Here we're outside the Winter Quarters temple (that was built in 2001).

There was a storm and here is a picture of an accident that had happened because of the storm.

This is how the road looked part of the way...

...and here's someone's garden, a tree has fallen close to the house and there's as you see there's quite some water and the white you can see in a few places (especially by the water) is hail.

Then we came to scout camp. The boy scouts had camp this week and the last evening the families could come and visit. Shawn and Alex where there for the camp so the rest of us came up to visit them.