clean chairs, fries, bell tower, "stuffed" animals, friend

Emily can't say we didn't do anything for spring break.

Just on Saturday alone our family helped the ward scrub down every single chair in our stake center. A bazillion of them. Emily actually babysat Brig while he slept for the first part (he had another rough night).

We then took Emily and her siblings to Ripples for overpriced fries, onion rings, root beer freezes, blackberry milkshake and a fresh lime. I should post one day about my childhood memories of Ripples.

In the afternoon, the talented Alpha Smoot, invited us to her recital at the BYU bell tower. Yup, she plays the bells. We hung out on the lawn while she played a bunch of songs up in the tower. She is awesome. How cool to have that on your resume. THEN, we got to hike up the 100 winding stairs and play the bells too! Yaw does not like heights but we talked him through it. Randy and Brig laid on the grass below.

Bean Museum was across the street so it was our next stop. Yaw doesn't like animals. Ella loved them and asked me very tenderly if all these dead animals were up in heaven with Pres. Hinckley. We watched a documentary on Elephants. It was touching. I cried. Emily decided she should take better care of our turtle and begged us to go right then to the store to buy him a better bigger home. Since then she has forgot to feed him for 3 days.

At home we continued with our spring cleaning and then Emily escaped to her friend Molly's home for the evening.

Emily, it wasn't Disneyland but it was a good day.