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Hill Cumorah!

This summer, our big trip was to the Hill Cumorah Pageant in Manchester, New York.  We applied to the pageant last fall and got accepted in December.  We weren't sure if we were up for it but finally decided to go somewhere around February.  The Hill Cumorah Pageant is all about the Book of Mormon, which is one of our four scriptures, also including the Bible and two other books. On June 29, we backed out of our driveway and arrived in Manchester 2000 miles later, on Friday, July 1st around 1pm.  It was a LOT of driving. We are witnesses:  The USA grows a lot of corn. We set up our camp that afternoon and then spent the evening auditioning for parts.  Auditioning is not really the right word.  Mostly they just handed out the parts and you got whatever they thought you fit.  If I had been younger and/or better at dancing, I might have gotten a dancing part...but I'm not and I didn't.  And that was fine.  Although I was remarkably sore for a couple of days from t