We woke up first thing this morning and took mom and the kids to a local ward to attend church, about half an hour away. The kids were well behaved, and I think our family nearly doubled the size of their primary. Ethan and Tyra were in the same class, since they normally had so few kids in it. The people were really friendly and many of them came up to us to welcome us and ask who we were. We saw several looks of disappointment when we mentioned that we were just visiting.
As we were leaving the church we saw someone with boxes of girl scout cookies, but the boxes were different than the ones we get in Utah. Kyle went to talk to them and found out that they have the cookies that we can’t get in Utah! So we asked her if she could find get us a case each of the Lemonades, the Thanks-a Lots, and the Mango Cremes. She said she would find out and try to deliver them to us tonight, or ship them to us.
When church was over we drove out to Raleigh to see the temple. It is such a cute dinky temple! It shares a parking lot with a stake center right next door, and I don’t think the temple was much bigger than the stake center. We were able to walk around the whole temple in only a few minutes.
I found it interesting to see kale growing on the temple grounds.
It was really bright today, (actually it’s a nice break from the freezing weather that we have been having back home).
When we got back to Grandma Katrina’s house we found that she had a large pot of chicken soup waiting for us. Kyle was a bit concerned because a couple of days ago she had made the comment that she doesn’t cook much anymore. I pointed out that not cooking and not knowing how to cook are two different things. 🙂 It was actually very good soup. She used some of the leftover chicken and the vegetables that were left on the veggie tray that the cousins had brought over, and turned it into chicken soup. I had never thought of putting broccoli in chicken soup before. It turned out very good and I was very surprised to find that my kids ate it all. I didn’t see any kids bowls lying around with uneaten vegetables in them.
After we finished eating dinner, my girl scout cookies arrived! Just in time for dessert. We were all very excited to try the cookies, so we opened the Mango Cremes first. Grandma Katrina was reluctant to have one, as she doesn’t eat sweets much anymore, but after finishing the first, she asked us, “okay, what’s next?” We tried all three flavors.