Visiting Uncle Ken, Temple and First time in the Temple Apartments, and the Getty

 The weekend of the 11th we took our monthly trip to the Los Angeles Temple. We were planning on going with Sarah's dad but he was unable to make it. Because he was going to come with us, we decided to book a room in the Temple apartments (which is only available to people from our stake and to temple workers). 

We didn't know what time we would arrive. We were able to go visit Uncle Ken Cottam at the place that he is staying. The people that are taking care of him are doing a magnificent job. He really seems to be in a good place and it was fun singing happy birthday to him (a late one), as well as some other songs on the Ukulele.

We made it to the last endowment that night. It was cool because we saw Brother Davenport from our ward there. He was splitting up his time with his wife in a hotel and their kids so that both of them could go to the temple. That is really great. We were able to talk to him for a bit before we did our tradition of reading a Psalm in the Celestial Room and praying together as a couple.

Our temple apartment room was really nice. We decided to pick up some Panda Express since it was close and it was late. We ate on the balcony of the apartment as well as looked at the skyline of Los Angeles and the moon. It was rather special. We tried to watch Father of the Bride but we were zonked out from all the travel so we fell asleep.

The next morning I had an Orff Conference in Los Angeles. The conference was about adjusting how you teach music to those that have different abilites. They recognized me in an anouncement as one of the people that had travelled the furthest to get to the conference. I was also able to meet a 90 year old previous member of Orff and she was really nice, as well as the President of the Orff Chapter. Sarah had gone to hang out with her mom as well as help out with her mom.

That afternoon, we made an impromptu decision to go to the Getty Museum, specifically after 3pm. One, because the Getty is a free museum, and two, because parking after 3 is only $15. We had parked and as we were getting ready to go up the elevators, Kanani yelled out to us from a car that was leaving the Getty parking lot. That was fun.

We had gone to the bathroom near the line for the Getty, which was super long, and as we were waiting we found out that we needed tickets to get in. I was a bit worried that we had already paid for parking and we weren't going to be able to find tickets to get in. My worry was for naught because of two reasons. First, the next half hour had tickets available, and the second reason was because Sarah was feeling rather tired and so she asked me if I could get a wheelchair for her from the Getty people, which I did, and then they had us surpass the line to get in, without even checking for tickets, and get on the next tram up to the Getty Museum.

The museum was really cool, and we were able to get some good pictures of the Los Angeles skyline, this time with several pictures of a LAPD helicopter in the background. We didn't expect to even see a fraction of the museum, but what we did see, we enjoyed. And then we drove home.