Old Historic Nauvoo

Last Wednesday, we had a girls day and night out at Old Nauvoo. We left at 9:30 to get our Subways for a picnic lunch then headed out of Peoria toward Nauvoo. We got to the visitors center around 12:30 to have lunch.

At 1:00, we met up with Elder Richards and his two companions. We had a great time visiting with them. I know Colleen was tickled to see her baby (Elder Richards). We took a carriage ride around the wooded areas (what Nauvoo looked like when the pioneers arrived) and heard several different stories about our ancestors.


We made a visit into town to the LDS Harvest bookstore. I was able to find Tressa the primary childrens' songs (words and music) on CD. Now we have something to listen to in the car instead of Christmas music all year round.

While Colleen was giving Travis a haircut on the deck of his apartment, Tiona and I took the girls to the pavilion to play pioneer children games from their time period. It was a lot of fun. Tressa made a little friend while we were there named Briel. We also got a tour of Scovy's bakery (I think that is the right name, I could be wrong).

An hour later, we met up for dinner at the Hotel Nauvoo. It was YUMMY home cooking. It was pricey but worth every penny. After stuffing ourselves happy at the buffet, we watched the band perform in front of the Cultural Hall for about 20 minutes. Tressa was rather entertaining dancing to the music.

Later that evening, we watched Sunset by the Mississippi. It had some great humor and rather enjoyable. In the beginning of the show, they had all the little kids decorate a hat and carry either a musical instrument or a flag around in their parade on the stage. Tressa looked so cute waving her flag.

We had a great time. After a long fun day we got home around 1:00 in the morning.