Melissa, Andy and the kids' Blog

  On Sunday, March 9th, we went to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' Hyde Park Chapel. I learned that the building was built on a plot of land that had previously been bombed during World War II.  It is smack in the middle of tons of old buildings and museums.  I loved how diverse all the people were there.  One of the missionaries told me that all the people who attended that building came from 120 different countries.  Amazing!  This is also the chapel where Andy's mum and dad were married.   The foyer was turned into a visitor's center.     After church we decided to stay in the area and visit all of those free museums.  First on our list was the Victoria and Albert Museum.  In front of the museum I stopped to take a picture by a phone booth, but Andy didn't cut out the Frenchman who was also getting his picture taken.     I loved the Victoria and Albert Museum....

Did you know Andy is 1/2 English, and 1/2 olde English/Welsh/etc? The Bayless family has been in the USA since the USA started to be the USA. My Mum, however, moved from London, England to Utah to go to BYU when she was 18/19 years old. My aunts (pronounce the "u" please, they are not insects) and all my cousins still live in England. I had met a few of my cousins when I was a little kid and my Aunts, Glyn and Mon, have been to the USA. One cousin, Sarah, is in the US a few times per year for work and always manages to stop by Utah. During one of her recent trips she really got us thinking and Melissa and I decided it was about time to go and meet the rest of my family.  Remember the photo of passports a few posts back?   Well, my passport expired a year or two ago and Melissa hadn't ever been outside the US, so we both sent in at the same time. Then we purchased our flight tickets, while awaiting the passports.   That really solidified everything. A word of adv...