The Toronto Temple

Niagra Falls

Niagra Falls from the Canadian side is so much more beautiful than from the American side.  You can see the all of the Horseshoe Falls and the American Falls.  From the American side, you cannot see all of the Falls.  20% of all the fresh water in the world passes through Niagra Falls.  

Upper Falls

Base of Falls

The Horseshoe Falls are 173 ft tall.  34 million
 gallons of water per minute go over the falls.

American Falls

Horseshoe and American Falls

Niagra River with Class 6 Rapid

The Floral Showhouse where they had every type of plant imaginable – from cactus to tropical plants.  They also had a small pond that was full of turtles.

The Butterfly Conservatory was wonderful.  Different species of beautiful butterflies were flying around  beautiful plants.  One of the larger butterflies landed on Cliff's back and stayed on his back the entire 45 minutes we were there.  When it was time to leave, she had to be forcibly removed by one of the employees.  She bonded so well with Cliff, she laid 4 eggs on his jacket.  The eggs were covered with a sticky substance and didn’t brush off easily.  

Amish Country

Mesopotamia and Middlefield are Amish communities.  There are approximately 2,000 Amish in the area.  Horse drawn carriages and foot power are their most common modes of transportation.  Amish build their carriages by hand without any pattern or blueprints.  The only part they do not make are the wheels.

Car passing the horse and carriage

Amish couple inside buggy as they passed us on highway

         The General Store built and operated since 1840.  

The store's primary customers are the Amish.

A typical old fashioned general store with bulk foods, grocery items, old scales, old cash registers, bean cabinets, and the original wooden floor was in excellent condition.

Parking lot at the General Store

Kirtland, Ohio

My favorite place in Kirtland was the Newel K. Whitney Store with the relics from the past, lanterns, barrels, etc.

 

A Checker Board.  The checkers are slices of corn

The Kirtland,Temple which is now owned by the 

Community of Christ Church (previously the RLDS). 

The John Johnson Home in Hiram, Ohio.  Joseph was staying with the Johnson family when he was dragged from the home, tarred and feathered.  Sidney Rigdon was also dragged from his home across the street and tarred and feathered by the same mob.

Chicago

Our next stop was Sycamore, Illinois (about 50 miles from Chicago).  We were camped by two beautiful lakes  – one behind the trailer and one in front of the trailer.  We had such a beautiful view looking outside our window with a couple of swans floating on the lake.  I loved watching the swans, but it was strange because they never changed positions.  Cliff finally convinced me they were fake – I was really disappointed.  At the least the chipmunk was real.

The Chicago Temple

The town square in Woodstock, Chicago where the 

majority of the movie,“Groundhog Day”  was filmed.

Nauvoo

The Nauvoo Temple

Monument in front of Temple

Plaque on Monument

Monument to Women

   

Barge to carry wagons across the river