Due to budget cuts, there was no bussing. I drove Josh an hour to Rexvurg to get him and his friend there by 8:30. A big deal for me to leave the house before 7:15. I was even showered and my face on.
I was planning on staying the whole day. But what to do while Josh practiced all day.
Really no problem. I went to the Rexvurg temple. I found a fabric shop and bought some lovely peach fabric and some fleece.
I wandered BYUI and found a full sized three D facsimile of the Rosetta Stone.
I did not realize it was so big. I think the original is in London. (Per the Kane Chronicles by Brandon Mull)
I caught the last few minutes of the practice and then we wandered the campus. I tagged along with the five boys and their band teacher. Their band teacher attended years ago and he showed the boys his favorite parts of Campus.
We ended up back at the Library. We found the Rosetta Stone. The boys were fascinated. We were right by the Special Collections room. It had been closed earlier when I was there. The band teacher knew a bit about the Special Collections. They had some very old Bibles.
The oldest one was a small vellum hand written vulgate from the 1200s. We had put on little white cotton gloves so we could handle it. There were several excellent specimens of printed Bibles, even one page of a Guttenburg Bible. It was a page from Job. Very cool.
There was a Great Bible - a large Podium Bible. A smaller study Bible with footnotes. A very large copy of the King James Bible. A first edition copy of the Book of Mormon that was water-stained from crossing the plains.
Simply Awesome!
They also had a reproduction (?) of an old press. An up-dated, by 100 years or so, of the Gutenburg Press.
We had to hurry through dinner and get back to the concert hall.
These kids learned five songs and performed them in one day. They were intricate, complicated songs. I was so proud of Josh. He was surprised by what he was able to accomplish in one day.
We came home with a few momentous of our day. A Stripling Warrior recommend holder and a BYUI water bottle. He is thinking about how cool it would be to attend BYUI. For that it was worth the day and farming Boaz out.
As for Boaz, he came home having been talked into completing an assignment from his friend. I didn't have to play the heavy and make him do the reading assignment. He gathered all the items for his book report. I didn't even have to make him cry.
All in all, a fabulous day.
