Art & Elva Landon Reunion

Saturday August 27, 2011 we went to Roberts, Idaho for the Art and Elva Landon Reunion. 1. Place held, 2. Evonne Landon and Ira Landon, 3. Jeannie and Forrest Landon, 4. Ira Landon and his sister Ora Albertson, 5. Jerry Landon, Yvonne Landon, Ora Albertson, Jeannie Landon, Ira Landon, 6. Ora Albertson, Ira Landon, Jerry Landon, (Children of Art and Elva still left living) 7. Ora with Randy Landon,
8. Group game with Penny Landon in the front, 9. same as #6 but with Randy and Forrest.

Rodney Ricks Headstone

Shopping with the Landon grandkids

Monday August 22, 2011 I went with Raquel, Kinsley, Keagan and Holden Landon to Idaho Falls shopping for school clothes. Kinsley will be in the 5th grade and Keagan and Holden will be going to pre-school. Shopping is not complete without riding on the toys at the Mall. We had a great day.

West Yellowstone, Yellowstone Park in August

Friday August 19, 2011 Randy and I took the Hays's and Ashley camping to West Yellowstone. Oliver called it "fake" camping because we had the trailer and all the conveniences. But to me that is camping.

We went to the Discovery Center. We saw Bears, and Woolf s and the kids loved playing on the play ground.

Saturday August 20, 2011 we drove through Yellowstone Park.

Yellowstone is not complete without seeing Old Faithful.

Porter Park August 17, 2011

The Hays family came to visit for a few days. This is Oliver and Henry at the Splash Park at Porter park. They had so much fun.

You cannot go to Porter Park without riding the Carousel.

YW Ice Blocking

August 16, 2011 Beehive Class of the Lyman II ward Ice Blocking in Smith Park. They all had a great time.

August 12, 2011 Day 15 San Francisco to Rexburg

Today was a long driving day. When we started out we were going to stop half-way, but decided there was not anything in the middle of Nevada so we continued on home. 858 miles and approximately 15 hours. A very long travel day for Randy and I. I am thinking flying is really good.  It is always great to be home !!!!!!!!

August 11, 2011 Day 14 Bay Cruise, Alcatraz

It was a little foggy and windy but we went on the Bay Cruise.  We went under the Golden Gate Bridge and over by the Bay Bridge.  We saw lots of sail boats and sights of San Francisco.

Fun sights on Fisherman's Wharf, large lobsters, street performers, crab statue, large replica of shark teeth.

We ate lunch at the Rain Forest Cafe.

We went to Alcatraz Island.  It is a State Park now so they have been doing a lot of restoration out there.  It was very interesting to see and hear about all that use to go on at the island.

August 10, 2011 Day 13 Bike ride over Golden Gate

We hauled our bikes over to Fisherman's Wharf and headed for the Golden Gate Bridge. What a fantastic ride over the bridge. Lots and lots of people do this, they either ride or walk. The view is amazing.

Next we went into Sausalito. What a unique and fun little town.

We continued onto Tiburon and then took the Ferry from there back to Pier 41 at Fisherman's Wharf. We did a total of 20.3 miles. It was a great day.

View of San Francisco on our ride back to the motel. In China town clothes were hanging out the windows in a lot of the apartments windows. We went back to the room and cleaned up and then went to the Mall on Powell Street, shopped, went to the movie "The Help" and then rode the cable car back to our room.

August 9,2011 Day 12 China Town, Fisherman's Warf, Play Billy Elliott

We walked down to China Town and did some shopping.

Rode the cable car and the down town buses.

Went to Fisherman's Wharf and ate Clam chowder and saw the sites there.

We went to the Broadway musical "Billy Elliott"

August 8, 2011 Day 11 Donner Park, Sacramento Temple, Bay Bridge, San Francisco

We dropped Ashley off at the Reno airport and then headed to San Francisco. We stopped at the Donner Memorial Park. What a tragic situation for those pioneers.

We stopped and took pictures of the Sacramento Temple. It was closed for maintenance so we were not able to do a session. It is a gorgeous temple, acres and acres of maintained grounds. It is beautiful.

Bay Bridge going into San Francisco

Wyndham Resort in down town San Francisco. Canterbury. The rooms are quite unique and fun. We were able to just walk around town last night and enjoy the city.

August 7, 2011 Day 10 Church, Heidi's, Cruise, Mini golf

We attended the Lake Tahoe Ward. 2/3rds of the people were visitors. It must be a challenge to run a ward with that type of attendance each week.

You have to eat breakfast at Heidi's if you are in the Tahoe area. They are only opened from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., but their breakfasts our wonderful. There is always a wait but it is well worth it.

We went on the M.S. Dixie II cruise. It is a 2 hour Scenic boat ride going to Emerald Bay. Very relaxing and beautiful scenery.

Ashley wanted to go miniature golfing so we finished off our last day in Tahoe with that. It was a fun little course.

August 6, 2011 Day 9 Gondola, Car Show & Auction

We rode the Heavenly Gondola up to the ski resort. They stopped at the observation deck and we could get out and take pictures. You could see Lake Tahoe and for miles around.

On top you can ski either in Nevada or California. We ate lunch on top and watched the activities that were going on.

The casinos had Hot August Nights Car Show and Auction. Lots of restored automobiles from all makes, years and models.

The auction was fun to watch. Cars were going through from $10,000.00 to $90,000.00. On Sunday I think the values will go up to around $200,000.00. There were some amazing cars to look at.

August 5, 2011 Day 8 Pedicure, Shopping, relaxing

Ashley and I went for a Pedicure and a manicure. A fun Spa where they all spoke Vietnamese but were very efficient. A great relaxing morning. We then got Randy and went shopping.

We ate at "Freshies" a roof top restaurant with a wonderful view of the Lake.