Huffaker Happenings: New York State

On October 12 Steve and I started our trip back east. First stop was Buffalo, New York. We rented a car and drove 30 minutes to Niagara Falls on the Canadian side. This was the view from our hotel room on the 16th floor. Amazing!

The next day we bought tickets to go on the Maid of the Mist which takes you right out to the falls.

We're in our blue rain gear ready for the adventure.

At 12:30 we checked out of our hotel and started the two hour drive to Palmyra, New York. What a beautiful drive it was through the country. It is amazing how much farm land is in New York. The trees were changing color which was such a thrill!

We started at Hill Cumorah Visitor's Center, then to the Palmyra Temple.

Next we toured Joseph Smith's first log cabin he grew up in, then saw the bigger house they moved into later. We ran into a couple from Brazil. The wife had been baptized a year after Steve left his mission and she knew Steve's mission president. It was fun to listen to them visit in Portuguese.

We had a nice walk in the Sacred Grove and enjoyed the peace, quiet, and beauty there.

The most interesting tour was that of the building where the first 5000 copies of the Book of Mormon was published. The building was all original and many original documents were displayed. What a great undertaking that was for the time period.

We stayed that night in the Palmyra Inn-a very nice place to stay if you go there. Large rooms, but no restaurants in the city. We had to drive to the next town to eat at a diner.

The next morning we left bright and early to start the four hour trip to Queensbury, NY, where Kirk and Bonnie's family live. I was to be in the dentist chair for a root canal at 1:00 PM, so we couldn't dilly dally. It was so fun to see little Luke Huffaker for the first time! What a cutie!