An interesting P-day

Our P-day group (7 couples) drove over to LaBelle, Missouri to Heartland Dairy which is run by a ministry which seeks to help troubled youth and adults by giving them work and teaching them Christian values. We were given a tour by a nice lady named Brenda. She drove us all over the huge compound. We stopped at a barn full of baby goats.

The highlight was seeing a 60-cow milking carousel. The cows get on, are washed, hooked up to the milker and by the time the carousel moves them around and they get off, they have been milked! Someone made this one minute video of it if you're interested.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9Qyizlh1ik

It was quite a drive over there past a whole lot of cornfields. We had lunch at the Solid Rock Cafe also run by the ministry--good food and good prices. By the cafe was an antique car museum also created by the minister.

On the way home our car stopped in Quincey to see the monument where the Mormons crossed the river.

Then in the evening Eldon and I went at dusk down the Trail of Hope. The Young Performing Artists were stationed along the way giving little vignettes and songs which made you think about what the pioneers went through as they left behind their beloved Nauvoo and headed west. At 9:30 at night it was still quite hot and muggy. Summer has arrived and the tourists have descended upon us. Also the bugs. Eldon has some pretty bad bites on his back.