2009 Family Summer Vacation

It is been a while seen we blogged last. Sorry about that. Last month (July) we went to Toronto Canada to see family on Catherine's side. This is family that Monte has not met at all. It was fun getting passports to go and then finally going to "another country." We are happy to report that things are still good in Canada "a"! Monte learned that there is nothing wrong saying "a", especially when you are talking about an exciting topic. :-)

While there we visited an Canadian Air Museum. It was quit fun to see all those old airplanes. One was the only remaining Halifax Bomber in the world. This plane was rescued from a World War II crash site and rebuilt to factory specification. It was big! Connor said he wanted to take one of the planes home with us.

We then visited a Lock System on a nearby river/bay area. The kids had some fun watching boats go through the locks. They even let us help open the doors to the locks. There where about 12 locks in the whole system spanning a good 25 miles.

And we can't forget about seeing family. We stayed with Catherine's aunt, Rose. She is a cute lady just like Catherine's mother. They are short people, therefore the ceiling up stairs and in the basement was very short. Monte nearly received a concussion coming down the stairs.

After being in Canada for a few days, we then drove down to Niagara Falls and the Palmyra Pageant. They where both very cool and exciting to watch. We enjoyed ourselves and we learned how small Connor's bladder was during the whole trip. This was the first time Monte has been this far north east. We also found time to stop at the Sacred Grove and then Kirkland Temple on the way back home.

All in all we really enjoyed our road trip and grew closer together as a family. We hope you enjoy our pictures and we will make a better effort keeping up on our blogging.

Love the Monte Stark Family.