My birthday trip to the temple

I got a wonderful opportunity to go to the Oklahoma City Temple on a pre- birthday trip. My mom lives about two hours SE of us so we meet up in Fort Smith and I left my car in the parking lot of the local church building. We then drove the three hour trip from Fort Smith together to Yukon (where the temple actually is). My mom and dad volunteer at the OKC temple once a month for a week so they have a place they rent for that week. It's about a 2 min walk from door to door. There's a sidewalk from the backdoor of the house to the temple grounds. We had the oportunity to be in the temple and enjoy it's beauty and the peacful feeling within it's walls for several hours. It was also very nice to be with my mother.
We then spent the night and spent the next day shopping, getting lost and driving back home. It was a grand adventure for two ladies with no kids or husbands.