This is a picture of the painting in the front of the Precious Moments Chapel where we stopped on our way from Branson to Kansas City. We have been there several times and can't get enough of just admiring the paintings in the chapel. I need to be more informed as to the history of the area. I have known but facts escape me at the moment.

This is a group picture of the last group we took to Branson. The picture was taken in front of the "Precious Moments Facility" They love the paintings done on the walls of the chapel. I think this trip was 2007.

For a number of years we have taken a bus load of Senior Citizens back to Branson MO to watch some shows. We usually do this the day after Thanksgiving. This picture was taken at an outdoor theatre called, Silver City. We have been very fortunate to enjoy good weather on every trip. We have done this four different years. We have arranged buses, flights, hotels and shows. We may not do it any more because of age.

This is show that we were on a cruise where we visited different Greek Islands in 2008. Our favorites, of course, was Athens and Olympia.

On most cruise ships there is a place to play different games. This ship had an enclosed place for table tennis. It was difficult to beat young chinese players but I could hold my own with most of the senior citizens.

In April of 2008, we spent twenty-one days on transatlantic cruise on a ship called the Royal Princess. This is a picture of on of the formal nights where they requested that we dress up for dinner. During that cruise we visited the Azore Islands, Irland, Portugal, two ports in England, Holand, France, the Keil Canal, Finland, St Petersburg, Russia, Estonia and Switzerland. The trip was very educational. We left from Utah and returned to Utah. The weather was very good in all of the countries until we returned to Utah. Up returning, we both caught colds.

When we took our transatlantic cruise last spring (2008), we went in the ship at the left. It holds 700 passengers while the one on the right holds about 2,500. We were able to go into smaller ports and cruise the Keil Canal from the North Sea to the Baltic Sea because of the smaller ship. We got acquainted with many more passengers than we could have done on a larger ship. The cruise was twenty-one days in length and took us to twelve different ports. It was very educational to visit all of those places.

While in Curacao, we met some other LDS members and went with them to visit the ocean not far from the chapel. We were impressed by this natural bridge. This was in April of 2009.

This is a duplicate picture of our visit to Belize City. It was wonderful to see Harold again. His nephew had not been born when we were there.

On our cruise in April, we stopped at Belize City and were pleased to have Harold Smith and his nephew meet us at the port. We spent most of the day with them. It was a wonderful reunion after twenty-five years. I set Harold apart as the first branch president in the Belize branch. He later served as district president and is presently serving as a counselor in the district presidencey. This picture was taken in front of the new building in Belize. This area is now under the El Salvador Mission.

We got together with some of the missionaries who served with us in the Cochabamba Bolivia Temple. When we opened the temple, we had no temple missionaries. Before we ended our mission two and one half years later, we had twelve couples. LaRue and Carolyn Lunt, the first couple at the left, joined us about three weeks after the temple opened. They came well prepared and help us survived. We appreciated all that followed as well.

We went on a cruist to Canada and the New England states in October of last year. On a little side trip out of Quebec we took a picture of this water falls with some trees with leaves with fall colors.

At Christmas time 2008 we visited Debra and Kent in California. They took us to Sutter's Mill up above Sacramento. We enjoyed this very much

This picture was taken in April 2009 while we were on an eastern Caribbean cruise.

This picture was taken as we cruised from Whittier, Alaska, to Vancouver. It was one of the most beautiful glaciers that we have seen. This was taken in September of 2006.

We enjoyed an Alaskan cruise in September of 2006. We started in Whittier and ended in Vancouver British Colombia. This is a picture of us with the Mendenhal glacier in the background. This glacier is close to Jouneau, Alaska.

The LDS temple in Hamilton, New Zealand is very beautiful. We were there in February 2007, with my nephew, Alan Bingham, and his wife Sharon. Sharon was taking the picture. The lady at the left was just passing by so joined us in the picture.

This a picture taken near Lake Topo in New Zealand where we went on a cruise. These were some hot springs near the lake. My nephew, Alan Bingham, was a missionary in New Zealand 45 years earlier. He is taking the picture. His wife Sharon is with us in the picture. This was in February of 2007.

We visited Olympia where the original olympic games started seven hundred years before Christ. Bernice is pretending that she is ready to run with the torch. We were there in October of 2007. This was part of a Greek Island cruise.

This is the river at Sutters Mill which provided power via a divers.ion channel. We visited there two days before Christmas 2008

This is a picture of the temple in Sacramento, California. We stopped to see it on our way to visit Sutters Mill in Coloma, two days before Christmas 2008.

Here we are in front of the replicate of the original Sutters Mill.

This is a better picture of the equipment used for the mining process.

The year (2008) we spent Christmas in California with Debra and Kent. We went north to Sutters Mill to see where the gold rush of '49 was started. We stopped in Sacramento on the way to see the temple. They have a very nice museum to commorate gold's discovery in California.
We also visited China Town in San Francisco and rode the cable cars up and down the hill. We stopped at Fisherman's Warf.
We went to Half Moon Bay to see the Tide Pools. The first visit was with the tide in. We saw a lot of seals on the beach. The second visit was with the tide out and we saw the pools with the varied forms of sea life.

I have been going through all of my pictures and found this picture of Bernice and VerLee Bingham taken at some ruins in Mexico back in the 70's some time. It really doesn't fit in right here but reminds us of some good time we have had traveling with Ron & Lee.

In Acapulco, Mexico divers jump from these cliffs.

From the peninsula in Mansanillo, Mexico, we could overlook the harbor and some of the hotels along the shore. This hotel is seen from the back side. In front there is a long, beautiful beach. We were on a hill where there were private residences owned by people from Canada, Arizona, Colorado and other places in the States. The climate is perfect during the winter months.

While in Manzanillo, Mexico, we asked our taxi driver to take us to where we could see some iguanas. We didn't know that they spent a lot of time in trees and that they were of different colors. We thought they were all green.

VerNon, Bernice are here in Manzanillo, Mexico, with Shauna and Edward Bunker. This took place on December 11, 2008. The plantations were impressive.

We visited Manzanillo, Mexico, on December 10, 2o08. We were interested in seeing some plantations. Bernice is sporting a bag that she had received on a Princess cruise. This time we were on the Carnival Spirit. We really enjoyed the plantations.

We went on a cruise to Acapulco, Zihuatanejo, and Manzanillo, Mexico, with Edward and Shauna Bunker This was an eight day cruise round trip from San Diego, California.

We went on a cruise to the Mexican Riviera on the Carnival Fun Ship. We visited a banana plantation in Manzanillo, Mexico. Bernice is carrying a bag obtained on our last Princess cruise.

After we finished our twenty-one day transatlantic cruise on May 21, 2008, we were heading to the airport in Stokholm, Sweden, on a bus. We stopped at a stop light and a truck pulled up to the side of us. I couldn't believe my eyes at what I saw. I took a picture of the painting on the side of the truck and this is the picture.

When we were in Sydney, Nova Scotia, we saw this very large violin so took a picture of Bernice and Sharon with the ship in the background.

Every evening we found a little animal in our room made out of towels. This gives you an idea of some of the images.

On the ship we had free dinning which means that we can eat with other people in different restaurants. Here is a picture of the Garden Room or cafeteria. Bernice is with Alan and Sharon.

On the upper deck of the ship there was a court to play basketball, soccer and other games. There was an exercise room and other nice things to do.

This swimming pool was on the upper deck of the ship. We will include some other pictures of the ship to give an idea of how we spent the ten days of the cruise.

We had this beautiful view of New York City as we started our cruise on October 8, 2008.

This is what we saw as we left the New York harbor on a cruise to Quebec, Canada, Prince Edward Island, Halifax, Sydney and Boston

On October 8, 2008, we left the New York Harbor on a ten-day cruise to Quebec, Canada, and other and other beautiful northern harbors . We passed the Statue of Libertty that can be seen here in this picture.

We were in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on October 11, 2008. It was our privilege to take a ferry to Dartmouth and visit the temple. It was closed for cleaning but we were able to see the outside. It is very beautiful.

We took a taxi out to a beautiful waterfall while we were in Quebec, Canada, October 13,2008. Quebec is a very beautiful city and we were there at a time when we could enjoy the color of the fall leave.

This is a picture taken from the ship as we pulled into the harbor. It is Le Chateau de Frontonac a very beautiful hotel. We had the opportunity to take a guided tour of the hotel and learn about it history.

We had this picture taken by the Old North Church where the signal was given to know whether the English were coming by land or (sea) river. October 10, 2008

We were recently in Boston on a cruise and enjoyed following the Liberty Trail that took us past the statue of Paul Revere. We enjoyed learning more about the history of our country. This picture was taken October 10, 2008.

We did manage to catch a few nice fish during the summer. This one was twenty-two inches long and almost four pounds. We managed to land it without a net but bought a net to help with those that followed.