Monday we drove to the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA with our fellow temple missionaries including Sue and Blair Garff, Linda and Clark Davis, Liz and Tom Hanson, Cheryl and Bob Nelson, Roberts, Parrotts, Hansens, and Tappens. I navigated the group to the museum and drove the van back to NYC. Sue Garff drove a group in their SUV. The museum is full of Norman Rockwell paintings, his artist studio that had been moved to the site from its original downtown location, and wonderful gardens. Following the museum tour we ate at an outdoor cafe in Stockbridge. The town, the subject of a famous painting featured at the museum, still looks like the original painting.
On the return trip we stopped at Kent Falls to enjoy the waterfall and the covered bridge
During the week we also rode our bikes through Central Park where we saw a raccoon foraging in a garbage can. We rode up and over the George Washington Bridge, and back. We rode to Grant's tomb, Riverside church, and Columbia University campus. All very enjoyable bike rides, but I think Paula over did it. After we rode through Columbia we were close to Costco, but it required a ride in traffic on 116th Street so we opted to come home.
Wednesday with took the subway to 155th Street in the Bronx to deliver two packages to Elder World from his mom. We saw the ward building, visited the missionaries' apartment, and walked with them to the NY Botanical Garden which we toured after the missionaries left us.
On Saturday we drove Larry and Janet Peterson
to New Canaan for a tour of the area. We got stuck in traffic and barely made it back for our temple assignment.
Friday evening we ate dinner following our temple assignment with the Blatters from Danville, CA who are leaving in a week after serving 3 months here. We have much in common with them and enjoyed our visit. Following dinner we walked to Whole Foods to buy some peanut butter chocolate cookies.
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