Best Easter program EVER!!

We have the 1:00 Sacrament meeting. I love, love, love sleeping in. Fast Sunday is a little hard, but do-able. Today was Easter. The choir always practices at 12:15 as soon as the other ward vacates the chapel after their Sacrament meeting. We were singing 3 numbers today so I figured there would only be a couple of speakers. How wrong was I? The whole program was nothing but music! The Primary sang  a Primary Easter song and "I Stand all Amazed."  A soloist sang "His Hands." The choir (of which I am accompanist) sang our 3 numbers. Two sisters sang a duet and then the Bishop bore testimony and said to go home as a family and look up #Because of Him.  That's right! Go home and spend the Sunday with your family, and if you know of anybody alone, invite them over. Well alright! Our neighbor was to be ordained an Elder today, so Charlie stood in the circle for that right after the meeting. Wow! It's only 2:30! So.....

We headed down to the temple with all the other visitors. There were 2 busloads of people from France!

I have wanted Charlie to see these houses on the hill and so a little drive was in order.  I am thinking this guy is middle eastern. It looks like he hit up every flea market from there to here.

Obviously Japanese. The shaker roof shingles were even extended at the corners  like the Japanese shrines and temples!

The gardening here is amazing. Looks like he painted the trunks white and pruned the greens to look like Bonsai trees. Don't know if you can see, but there is a Japanese mannequin pulling a cart by the tree.

You have to squint and look hard, but there are statues of dinosaurs throughout this backyard.
What kind of people live up on the hill looking over St. George?

Yesterday we went up to Cedar City. Charlie and Brent have been dying to do a project together. Today was the fence!  I guess the uniform of the day was navy shirt with shorts. I'll bet they planned it.