The Stimpson family vacation, 2010 version

For our summer vacation this year, we started off in Kirtland, OH, seeing the various church history sites there.













Next we took the roundabout way from Kirtland to Palmyra so we could see Niagara Falls (both US and Canada side).



















Got to visit the Sacred Grove and had a great time at the Palmyra Temple, as well as seeing other church history sites in the area.


After a much-too-long drive through New York and Pennsylvania, we stopped for a really quick, much-too-short visit to Gettysburg. (We'll have to go back there again to get a longer visit.)


I dragged my family to see my birthplace (which they probably loved most of all of the whole trip). Unfortunately, there are many buildings at Walter Reed, so I really have no idea which one I was actually born in. My mother (silly her) really hadn't a clue, given that she gave birth to me 39 whole years ago.



















We saw many of the Washington DC tourist sights. (No, Kermit himself isn't a sight, but he's at one of the Smithsonian museums, which is.)















We enjoyed a great experience at the DC Temple.









In Pennsylvania, we saw Valley Forge and Washington Crossing.



And finally, Philadelphia with the Liberty Bell (which is much smaller than I envisioned) and Independence Hall.












I was exhausted by the end, but we had a great time. Nice to experience a bit of both church history and US history (and my personal history, too!).