We have had two recent surprise performances by Bennett.
The first happened at the ward Christmas party. As the narrator began to tell the nativity story Bennett pulled the curtains on the stage apart and made his grand
entrance along the stage edge, as every mother in the audience cringed waiting for him to fall. Thankfully I got there quickly and the crisis was averted. He, of course, basked in the attention.
His most recent performance happened last night at the Stake Christmas Concert. For those of you that have not been, it is fantastic. I have gone to the performances at the Conference Center, and I have to say, our stake holds its own. The concert included this year the choir, orchestra, children's choir,
handbell choir and the state Drill Team. Through the first half Bennett was really good. We were sitting right by the percussion (easy access to a door out) and he was entertained by all that was going on.
At intermission Kevin decided to see if he could get him to go to sleep and began the process of pushing him around in the stroller outside. The concert resumed and Kevin was still out walking. The choir and orchestra were performing The Little Drummer Boy and from our seats we had a great view of the drummer, being at the other end of the pew from him. As I was admiring the drummers talent I see Bennett walk in another door, right next to the drummer. He wanders in the door and up to the drummer and then stops to look around. I am in shock and can't see Kevin anywhere, but have no way to get to Bennett through the people on our pew.
Finally Bennett sees me and I motion for him to come. I thought he would come through our pew, and being little he could have climbed over everyone. He must have thought it was too crowded though because he chose to go around, which involved walking through the percussion section. Thankfully he made his way straight over while the
handbell choir gasped about this runaway child wandering through the orchestra, and no percussionists were injured in the incident.
Here is to many more
embarrassing moments to come, right?
Trevor (left) and his companion preparing to harvest.
How could you not love a place with gardens like this?
Or castles like this?
Or this?
For some reason Bennett preferred chasing the geese.
If anyone knows what this traffic sign means or why he is wearing a hat please let us know.
But best of all, we fell in love with the sunsets on the harbour.
Victoria, we will be back.
That's right. This is the closest town which we ended up buying a tent in. (Yes, supposedly at the sporting good store where she worked.)
We knew this place was a little Twilight crazy, given that the story takes place here, but nothing can prepare you for something like this:
Or the teenage girls circling the truck taking pictures of every inch while crying. I thought at this point I had seen it all; the signs claiming Bella and Edward had been there, restaurants naming dishes after characters and then this truck at the Visitor's Center to top it all off.
I just didn't know about this yet:
That's right, this is the home of Bella Swan. In my confusion (come on this is a book about a place the author had never been to before involving vampires-it's not supposed to be real!), I finally asked the Visitor's Center what they were referring to when they were pointing out Bella and Edward's homes on a map. She explained that they read the book for descriptions and then picked homes in the town that most closely matched, with the owners permission. Of course I made Kevin drive to see the "homes" of two such popular "stars."
Edward's house is actually a Bed & Breakfast you can stay in. Interestingly, they had no vacancies. Supposedly the neighbors aren't too happy about all the extra traffic these two homes are getting.
This by far was my favorite sign in town, since it is the only one that seems to acknowledge that Twilight is not real.
Kevin wanted to see pretty coastline while were in the area and of course, the Visitor's Center could only recommend La Push, so off we went. These are the logs you have to climb over just to get to the beach.
I think this is probably what their weather looks like most of the time. It was actually eerily beautiful, but freezing. Why anyone would swim in this is beyond me.
Bennett however did not get the notice that it was cold and kept running for the water. 
And for one last picture, when you are stuck for 5 hours in Port Angeles waiting for the ferry and they have taken your car to keep your place in line, all the Visitor's Center can recommend is, of course, going to see where Bella and Edward had their first date. 
