Nauvoo, Illinois

After Carthage, we continued down to Nauvoo to see some more church history sites. We got there just in time for the last wagon ride through the historic town. It was cold, so we bundled up with some blankets and Liam, Sara, and I sat down with our two teamsters and the tour guide and our two horses for our own private tour of Historic Nauvoo. Yay for offseason tourism!

When we started the wagon ride Liam was asleep, but clearly sensing that something was going on Liam woke up pretty quickly, and just in time for this shot in front of the Temple.


A few minutes later the wind picked up and we had to augment Liam's attire with a loaner from Mom. Maybe some day he'll follow his Dad's example and go to Brown, if he does, I sure hope he gets a full-ride scholarship.

After the wagon ride we hit several sites and did the "short tour" at each one. At the blacksmith's shop we learned about making wagon wheels and watched the blacksmith make a mini-horseshoe. We then visited Brigham Young's house, the post office/dry goods store, the printing house, the gunsmith's, the bakery, the cultural hall, and the family activity center where we made ourselves some rope just as everything closed out for th evening.


We then snapped a few shots of the temple as the sun set before heading off to spend the night in Des Moines, Iowa.


We saw quite a bit in just 3 hours I thought, but we'd love to go back again some day.