Memorial Day and our office was closed so off we went for our first excursion and really, our first day of a different kind of fun. We drove 15 minutes to this amazing cooled vat of magma that originally lay ten feet below the surface of the earth. Hundreds of thousands of years of erosion revealed this largest of all monoliths in the world! The carvings are honoring heroes of the south during the Civil War: Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. The figure of Lee stands nine stories tall! We took the Skyride to the top of the mountain while others hiked the 3 miles to the top. The picture of me in front of the mountain with the green grassy plain in the background, marks the area where at 9:30 at night there is a laser light show. We will go back and see that, but today people at work told us they don't get out of there before 1, 2 or as late as 3 in the morning due to the crowds, so....The picture of Vivica with us was taken on the train. She was delightful! From there we headed to a ward bar-b-que and met a lot of the ward members along with two sets of married couples who are temple missionaries. We left at 5 as I had an appointment with Dr. Basra who had an interview the next day and wanted to practice. We are all rooting for this talented hard-working man! Home to listen to two conference talks for FHE and then bedtime wasn't far behind. One of my favorite things about the day was while we were walking around SMP, a family passed us and the mother said, "Look! It's the sisters!"
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