Our trip home--and my last blog entry

 Monday, Oct. 29, taking the Great River Road South along the Mississippi in IL and MO

This lovely little town was decked out for Halloween

 Another photo along the Great River Road--here called the Little Dixie Highway--Judi is wearing jeans!

 Gas--an unbelievable $3.06 in Missouri--eat your heart out California!

 Our first Sunday back in Glendora 90 deg.--Bro. Fa gifted us beautiful plumeria leis.

Sunday dinner with the Geddies and Daines families but Laura & Eric left before the picture was taken so this is just the Geddie boys.

Farewell to "Boo" tiful Nauvoo

Departing missionaries gather for one last feast at Hotel Nauvoo and honor Kyle and Jill Franklin who have provided most of the pictures, Pioneer Stories, e-mail communications and computer "tech" help for our missionary group--truly generous, talented and bright couple!

 Open House at Annies before the "Pumpkin Walk". Jill, Carol, Annie and Marsha

 Samples of the 500 pumpkins lining the streets of "Boo-tiful" Nauvoo. John and I carved a few, but these were the ones done by experts.

GOING HOME! Don't cry because it's over--SMILE because it happened!

 Our Autumn Social--Hearts Knit Together in Love--with Blairs and Rutowskis

 My wonderful Temple Choir--we sang "In This Very Room"

Our "resident" artist, Harry Heil,  painted a different site in watercolor for all 60 missionary couples

 Last dinner at Chuongs Garden--Chinese--with Douglases,  Holbrooks and Hodges

Marion--who assisted me at the Nauvoo Post Office for the past 18 months as I sent off Box #9

Look Who Showed up in Nauvoo!

What a surprise that Steve Zoschke just happened to walk into our session at the temple yesterday. Their truck route (they team drive) passed through Nauvoo so they came to the temple. Sherry had been driving and was too tired to come to dinner but we had a nice chat with Steve. He and I sang in the So. Calif. Mormon Choir together so we enjoyed "catching up".

 My last haircut with Robert

 Harry Heil does a watercolor for those who leave early

 Gathering to once again sing "God Be With You"...

as Elder and Sister Crapo from Alberta, Canada say good-bye.

Addendum to our Detroit trip

 Better picture of the speedometer

 This picture has Uncle Ed in it--They look pretty good for 86!

Another beautiful Fall tree

Trip to Detroit Oct. 3-7

 So much for our "allotted" mileage of 45,000

 Look what we found in Michigan! Not the same as we remember in Pasadena in the 50s

 Uncle Bob Domm, Sharon Bazner (cousin) Aunts Mary Lou Domm and  Bea Vergeldt (my dad's sisters)

The color in Michigan was breathtaking--this tree was in a cemetery in Romeo 

where we visited my old homestead

"God Be With You Til We Meet Again"--Farewell to the Wrays

 It has become customary to provide a box with farewell cards from all of us--

made with love by Susan Cottrell

 Here we are singing a fond farewell

The Wrays--we will miss them

Nauvoo Journeys Concert at the Catholic Church

 A view of their magnificent organ

 Our choir singing "Come, Come, Ye Saints" (in a Catholic church)

Brother Marshall (temple recorder) leading us in the finale: "A Mighty Fortress"

Can you find me in the alto section?

P Day trip to Mt. Pleasant, Iowa

 The reason for the trip? FOOD--real Mexican cuisine--and this place has it!

 Beautiful Fall color is coming to Iowa and Illinois

Such a lovely little town about 65 miles from Nauvoo

Farewell to the Douglases who have been here 22 months

 We discovered this Mongolian BBQ in Burlington--only 40 min. away

 Flakes, Andersons, Rees' and Watkins

Sue and Bruce Douglas from Richfield, UT--our neighbors upstairs--how we will miss these good folks!

Pete and Charlie's first day back to school

Laura says they were happy to return--Pete especially loves the bunny that runs free in his classroom

Labor Day Happy Birthday Bash

 Potluck dinner, entertainment and cupcakes

 Sisters Seeley and Hendrickson and Bro. Hodge actually had a birthday on Labor Day

Bro. Marshall sang for us--terrific tenor! One of our younger couples, the Winegars from Huntsville, UT

P'Day Trip to the Mark Twain Cave

 Entrance to the cave with our guide--fuzzy picture but proves we were there!

 And here are Becky and Tom

 Last time to host a Break the Fast Dinner--with the Argyles, Franklins and Seeleys

Trip to Burlington to see the movie 2016 Obama's America (scary) and dinner at the Big Muddy

with the Buchanans, Andersons and Blairs