Vacation day 2

We got up early Saturday morning and left Indianapolis and drove to Nauvoo.  The GPS got a little confused and had stopped working and we didn't realize it!  That gave us a good 30 minutes to an hour detour!  I guess Nauvoo is just so out in the middle of nowhere it couldn't figure out where we were.  We didn't really even have cell reception there either.  We stopped at a rest area in Illinois - the rest stops there were really nice - so beautiful too and the weather - oh my!  Perfect!

We finally got to Nauvoo about 3pm Saturday.  Everything was closing at 6pm, so we really rushed around the town trying to see as much as possible.  It was so beautiful and the weather was just amazing.

That night we went to the Nauvoo pageant.  Remember how I keep saying the weather was perfect??  Well, it was FREEZING that night!  And, it's the end of July and I didn't pack one single warm piece of clothing - for anyone!  We had to steal the little blankets off the end of our beds from the hotel to wrap the kids up in.  But, they were just little decoration things, they didn't even cover their whole bodies!  So the older kids were wrapped in those, I was huddling with my diaper bag and Tj was holding Bristol in the car seat on his lap trying to keep warm.  Thank goodness I had a light blanket to put over Bristol!  Before the pageant starts they have a little fair with all kinds of fun games for the kids.  Tyler loved tug of war!

 Brenalee tried to do the stick walk - Tyler wasn't about to get on those things!

 The pageant was amazing - so beautiful and moving.  Seeing the Temple in the background was awesome.

What a wonderful day we had!  We didn't have near enough time - we'll have to go back someday!