WHEATON!!!!!

Today we went to Wheaton College to see the Billy Graham Museum and other cool things. Our friend from church, Evy, was our "tour guide." We started our morning with a HUGE traffic jam (not unusual for this part of the country). We were 40 minutes late getting to Evy's house. We arrived at the Billy Graham Museum and started our tour.

The four of us at the beginning of the tour (except that this picture was actually taken AFTER we finished our tour).

This is a replica of a painting that was 40 ft x 195 ft. This copy is about 30 ft x 20 ft. It was awesome with the light shining behind the painting. If you look closely, you can see the glow around Jesus' body.


Yes, we let Elyse have the camera at one point. She always likes the jewelry, pottery and outfits of the time.


We have so many pictures of Elyse preaching:


Elyse tried to get Zachary to preach, but he was more interested in the clocks, sermon notes, and other gadgets in the pulpit:


At the end of the tour, the walls were cut out to make it look like a cross. You walked through the cross to a cross hanging on the wall.


Our friend Evy staring at the cross:


At the end of the cross, was a room called "heaven." It was a wall of clouds with mirrors on the ceiling and floor. It made you think YOU were flying up into heaven.

In this room, the music that was playing was the "Hallelujah Chorus." It was awesome!


Elyse being goofy in a very serious room:


After the museum, we ate lunch in the cafeteria. It is rated the best in the country. It was really good and we ate far too much. The kids had fun making ice cream cones out of a machine. Zachary had it on his hands and Elyse had a pretty good one-inch ice cream cone. When we took our trays up to the dishwasher, we all piled our glasses on Zachary's tray. It looked like he drank 12 glasses. Aren't we nice?

Next was the Wade (something) building. It held information about seven different authors. One of them was C.S. Lewis. They even had C.S. Lewis' original wardrobe. The kids thought about seeing if they could enter Narnia from it:


Many of the things in his books were on display and some from the movie. Here is the helmet from the Miraz's army. Do you recognize it?


Evy decided to take us to a popcorn store in downtown Wheaton. The whole store is only as wide as a door. It is about 30 feet long and only a door's width. They had candy on one wall (it used to be penny candy, but now it was a dime, quarter or a dollar candy). After the row of candy, a man was making fresh popcorn. We got a medium bag for $1.25. Such a deal. Elyse enjoyed it very much.

I happen to mention that I lived in Carol Stream, Illinois, before Dad & I got married. Evy decided that we had to find it and get a picture of it. I was amazed that I could remember the address. Nostalgia:


Evy took a few pictures too. If she sends them to me, I'll post them later. It was a very good day.