Sunday morning, Sept 14, we checked out of our hotel in Willoughby and drove the short distance through a beautiful wooded residential area directly east arriving at what we thought was the LDS meetinghouse, hoping to attend Sacrament meeting with the Kirtland Ward. The building was nice but seemed a little small. In the foyer we found a young mother with her child. She told us services started at 11 (it was almost 1130) but said we could go on in. We asked if the sacrament had already been passed. She said they only have the sacrament once a month. Then we realized we were at the wrong church. She said the LDS ward building was just a couple of miles further north! As we continued on we came to the Kirtland Temple which sits very close to the road in the community of Kirtland.

After our time in Kirtland we continued on towards Erie, PA, finding lodging in a Marriott Residence Inn near the I-90 freeway in Erie as the winds picked up and the day became more stormy and overcast; the result of the Hurricane Ike's push up from Texas into the midwest and on to the Great Lakes.