Grandma and Papa's Visit

Fortunately we live directly on the route from Utah to Florida.  So my parents were able to stop through Omaha on their way home.  It was nice to see my mom walk unassisted and eating better.  They got here last Saturday after the first session of General Conference.  We enjoyed a full weekend of General Conference, then on Monday, Mario and I took them to see the church sites in the area.  We have the Winter Quarter's Temple, the cemetery, and a visitor's center.  While looking for a place to eat lunch in Council Bluffs, we accidentally ran right into the Kanesville Tabernacle.  I hadn't really heard much about it.  But it is a meetinghouse built by 200 pioneers in 2 weeks.  It was built so they would have a place to sustain Brigham Young as the second prophet.  After touring that, we decided to go to lunch at Spaghetti Works which is at Old Market in Omaha.  My mom loved her spaghetti dish and she ate the whole thing minus a few pieces of Italian Sausage that she shared with me.

We wish they could have stayed with us longer.  But they were in a hurry to get back home to Florida.  They have been gone for 6 months and there's no place like home, especially if you are recovering from   an injury like my mom's.  I am amazed that she was able to ride all the way from Utah to Florida in the front seat of a van in just a week and she had spent a few of those days at my house.  I am sure she'll continue to amaze us with her recovery.