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Dan, Clare & girls visit Nauvoo

So much has happened since my last post, I hardly know where to begin...so I'll start with the most fun thing...the visit from Dan, Clare, Mesia, and Anna. They were here for 5 days and it was wonderful! I'm going to post these pictures fast, and then maybe tell more about them later. I just don't have time for everything I want to do...it is frustrating!

These first pictures were taken at Pioneer Pastimes...a fun place for kids of all ages!

Visiting the Sites

At the blacksmith's shop.

In the Old Nauvoo Cemetery...Mesia was sad because this was the grave of 2 little twins.

Family Living Center

Mesia and Anna LOVED this site...in fact, it was the ONLY site that Anna liked at all. They loved playing with the dolls and the sheep, while Dan and Clare looked at all the exhibits of how the pioneers made all their belongings...everything from candles to barrels to weaving their clothes and making rope. It is really an interesting place...but Mesia and Anna just liked the dolls!

By the Mississippi

We had a beautiful evening down by the Mississippi. There is nothing like watching the sunset over the river.

Just as we were about to leave this flock of Pelicans flew overhead. This was just a few of them...they just kept coming and coming!

More Sunset

Mesia by Joseph and Brigham

Looking Westward

Visiting Warsaw

We had been told that Warsaw was really a sad town that had not flourished much since the days of the Martyrdom of Joseph Smith, but we had no idea how bad it was until we visited there! It was unbelievable!! Most all the stores up and down a 3 block area were boarded up and vacated...some destroyed inside with time, but others looked as if people had tried to start a business, but it had failed and then they had just walked away and left everything. It was really eerie!

This was the building of the Warsaw Signal...the paper that had published all the lies about the Prophet Joseph. Thomas Sharp's name was still on the window. He was probably the head of the mob who killed Joseph.

This is what the inside of the Warsaw Signal looked like!!

This is the inside of another building a few doors down....and there were many like this. The only businesses we could see that were open were a couple of bars!