Host Families Are Forever

While on tour with Living Legends my freshman year, we were in Washington when I had the opportunity to stay with the Hillebrant family. To this day, one of my favorite host families. Ever.

Their oldest daughter, Amelia, is now attending BYU. So the family came down to drop her off and we had a mini reunion. 

Can I just tell you how good it was to see all of them again? 

We reminisced on old times and talked about life now. I love that they haven't changed one bit. It's too bad that Branda, another Living Legend member, wasn't able to be there for our reunion, but Branda is on her mission in Peru serving the Lord and we couldn't be any happier for her. 

Thank you Hillebrant family for opening your home to us and for taking the time to meet up a few weeks ago.

Paradise

As the summer is almost at an end, I realized one thing I didn't do. Go to the beach. What is a summer without the beach? Luckily I was able to go to the beach earlier during the school year while I was in California with Living Legends. Can I just go back to Paradise?



Living Legends — SoCal Tour 2012. from Lauren Flores on Vimeo.

And That's What Makes A Tour

So I decided instead of posting lots of updates about how our Nauvoo tour went, I decided I'd just post pictures. A picture is worth a thousand words, and much nicer to look at then lots of descriptions.

Living Legends, what are we gonna do?

Call Me, Maybe?

While on tour, Living Legends always tries to make a music video and I'd have to say that this one from our Nauvoo tour turned out pretty good. All the credit goes to Lauren. She's the bestest.


Living Legends Music Video 2012 from Lauren Flores on Vimeo.

Abraham Lincoln

A few weeks ago I was in Springfield, Illinois at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. I've been to quite a few museums before, including the Smithsonian, but nothing can ever compete with this museum. It was amazing. I went with my dance group and we first had the opportunity to perform for all the people in the museum.

And after that the real fun began. We got to go on a tour with one of the curators of the museum and he told us about the whole process of the beginning of the museum. It was really great to get to hear all about the museum, there was definitely a lot I learned during our private tour. 

If you ever have the chance to go to this museum you HAVE to see the two movies there- Ghosts of the Library and Lincoln's Eyes. We saw Ghosts of the Library first and it was amazing. They take you into a room that looks like you are looking into a library. The actor comes out and tells you stories about Lincoln but they use some sort of holographic images to tell the stories. Think of when the Indians in the Pocahontas movie use smoke to tell stories, that's exactly what they did! 
The second movie, Lincoln's Eyes, was in a different theatre. It was a movie. You sit down in seats in the Union Theatre and then they draw the curtains. Up pop three different movie screens, giving you an almost panoramic movie viewing experience. But this is no ordinary movie, it almost feels like something you would experience at Disneyland. With chairs that vibrate and dramatic sounds, you feel like you are actually there in the 1800's experiencing the Civil War and other events. 

Dancing Through Life

School may be over, but that doesn't keep us from still dancing. A few members of Living Legends all got together for a Latin celebration where we ate delicious food, danced and sang. 

Sarah, Katie, me and Eli