Our neighbors, the McGriff's invited us to go with them to the Manti Pageant tonight. Brian was not too excited and Erika and Riley could not remember when we went last time, which I figured was about 10 years ago. We left at 5:45 pm and headed towards Nephi. We took a different route, because the other one was just refinished with new asphalt, and the rocks were not set. A few of our neighbors that came back from girls camp, got rocks slammed into their windshield and had to replace them, so we didn't want that to happen to us. It took us an hour and a half and we arrived in Manti at 7:15 pm. The traffic was really nice, no backups or stopping and waiting and the parking was only a block down. We were glad that we went as early as we did. We had a couple of hours to sit and talk and brouse around the temple grounds. It was a nice warm night, which was nice for once. As always, there were anti-mormons at the entrance of the pagaent, which seems not right, but I guess they have nothing better to do than badger us. The pagaent started at 9:30 pm at dusk and was 90 minutes. It was a good show and the kids eyes were stuck to what was happening on the hill of the temple. We took blankets and jackets just in case, but really didn't need them, except to sit on. Those hard folding church chairs are not so good after sitting on them for 90 or more minutes. The cast in their costumes were walking around before the pagaent with the local full time missionaries. It was really neat to see them up close in costume. Most of them were youth. It ended at 11:00 and we headed out at 11:15, knowing that we would be in a traffic jam, but to our surprise we were able to get out going North with no stopping or waiting for other cars to get out. It was a really nice ride there and back and the we all seemed to have a good time together. Thanks to our great neighbor's for inviting us to come along.
