Martins Cove

I feel like through out our medical school journey we have somewhat

followed the pioneers path but in an air conditioned vehicle.

Starting in Iowa (Nauvoo, and Winter quarters) then trekking

our way to Independence Rock and Martins Cove, Wyoming.

Then landing in Utah as our home stretch to being done with

medical school.

It has been really neat to be so close to many of theses

great church history sites along our way. We have taken

full advantage of them being close. So on our way out of 

Casper with ALL of our stuff in tow we stopped at Martins Cove. 

We toured the visitor center and watched a movie.

Unfortunately, they weren't taking people out to the cove

that day unless you wanted to walk to it. And with the kids

and our time frame we really didn't have the time to walk out there.

But we did push around the hand carts. They are A LOT harder

than you think. They have this little circular trail that you can take 

them on and Addie made it the whole way with her little cart.

She got tired, but finished the course. So Tyler and I put the kids

in a big cart and together pushed them along the course. It's not as

easy as it might seem. And this was on a cut out flat trail. Lets

just say I wanted to cry for what those pioneers had to go through.

I can't even imagine having to pull and push one of those through

the snow with all my belongings on it. I'm so grateful for the faith

of those great pioneers and the many hardships they went through.