On Friday the 3rd, Rick picked me up from Lava Hot Springs as we sisters were checking out of our rental home. While everyone else headed towards their homes Rick and I went the opposite direction toward Afton Wyoming. We have a goal to get to ten new temples this year, and Pocatello was the first earlier that week. I found out that the Star Valley Temple was just a couple hours away from Lava and suggested that we add that to our list of ten. We drove through the mountains through Montpelier over to Afton. It was a beautiful snowy drive. We loved it so much! There was SO much snow! The roads were clear for the most part so that wasn't an issue but everything else was snow covered. As we arrived into town the temple came into view. I was very surprised at how small it is. I think it's one of the smallest I've seen.
Small but nevertheless, beautiful.
We drove into town and stopped at a little restaurant and had a little lunch before going over for our appointment at the temple.
We got to do initiatory work and then spent a little time in the Celestial Room.
After leaving the temple we stopped at Star valley Mercantile a cute home decor store. I found a couple of items to buy.😀 After that we drove around the streets of the town admiring the homes and stumbled upon this cool building. It is the Afton Tabernacle and was built in 1909. I wish we could have gone inside, but it was locked. We stopped and talked to an older couple who knew the building very well and they told us a few things about it. One thing that is cool about it is the bell tower. I don't know if there is an actual bell in it but we were told that the Sunday School boys in the early days liked to climb up there.
Anyhow, it was a beautiful building.
The icicles around town were HUGE!
We got to see two herds of elk on the way back to Montpelier where we were spending the night.
Five of them were bull elk with huge racks. We saw a total of eighteen. Pretty cool.
We stayed at the Super 8 in Montpelier and enjoyed a delicious dinner at a Mexican Restaurant next to the hotel and then relaxed for the rest of the evening.
The next morning we lounged around a bit and went for a swim in the pool and enjoyed the hot tub. We headed towards Logan where we stopped at the Lazy Ones Outlet and bought some jammies for the grand kiddos. Then we headed on home.
In Sardine Canyon we saw this giant snowman someone had built. You can't see how big it is by this picture but a man's head would come up just to that bottom button. I have no idea how they were able to get that head on top!
Fun times with my sweetie!
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