6.14.2010

Oh the places you'll go, Oh the things you'll see:


So last night at about 9:00 when the sun was setting, I looked out my back window and witnessed this:
This is with no editing or anything. Check out those colors!!


Holy cow, I love Logan! It really is such a beautiful place! Seeing that picture made me think of all the beautiful places I have seen and the people I have met. So I found some old pictures and join me while I reminisce: 

Torreon, Mexico 2008:
My family and I went with 4 other families to central Mexico and helped build a house for an extremely impoverished family. It was my first time seeing extreme poverty. We stayed with members of the church and made lifelong Mexican friends :)
 

In July 2009 I went to Cuenca, Ecuador and worked in a couple orphanages. This trip changed my life, seeing all those babies and children without familes. Someday I hope to adopt children that are in need of a home and a family.
Waterfalls while hiking in the Andes Mountains:
One orphanage we went to was way up in the Mountains, here is the soccer, or should I say futbol goal where the kids would spend the majority of their time:
Here is a scenic lookout over the city I stayed in, Cuenca:
One day we were able to fly to Guaquil Ecuador and were able to do baptims in the temple.
This is at a local Iguana Park, where the Iguanas run free:
The picture on the left is overlooking Guaquil, and the one on the right is a Catholic Cathedral in Cuenca:


If you didn't feel like getting your heart broken today then don't look at the next picture,
These are two orphans from an orphanage we helped at, this is the epitome of orphanges in Ecuador:

My friend Bergen took this one, an adorable little girl at another orphanage:

This is my favorite temple in the entire world:



This is when I floated 60 miles of the Green river with my cousins:


Looked out my window and what did I see? A beautiful Double Rainbow right out my front door:

Family Reunion at the Pend Orielle River in Washington, 2008:
It felt like a little piece of heaven!

Trip to San Francisco: LOVED that city
An abandoned house in San Fran. If you look closely you can see the island is covered with Elephant Seals:

Seeing Brian Regan live at Thanksgiving Point in Utah:

This one word says it all:
DISNEYLAND

This is a hike up Logan Canyon on Crimson Trail:
The picture speaks for itself!
Oh just a summer evening in my backyard:
Driving home one day, i had to stop and get a picture of this:


San Diego, California:

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico:
Dolphins!!:
Brandon jumping in the pool at sunset:

The world is so ridiculously beautiful!

5 comments:

Caytee said...

Love it! I remember some of those pictures. We will have many more adventures ahead. Thanksgiving trip to Hawaii on Uncle Wayne?

Kevin Erik White said...

Those are tttttiiiiigggggghhhhhhhhttttttttttt!!!!!!! Especially the iguanas one.

Burke and Emily Adams said...

Beautiful pictures, beautiful experiences! Just love this post and you, darling Madi Dodd! :)

Jennika Rae said...

ohhh myy goshhhhh madiii doddd i freaking love love loveeeee these photos!!!!next time you go on a trip to mexico or something for service let me know cuz i wanna come!!haha love chuuu

CocoShirley said...

I love this post. youre so right. we are so luckyyy