Nauvoo Trip

Nauvoo Temple on a beautiful Sept. day
Entrance to the Bed & Breakfast

Servers at the English High "Tea" with Gail

The first course: pretty, huh?

Christ walking on the water

Gail, Diane & me with Angela Johnson

I just got back from Nauvoo. I went up Saturday morning with Sisters Parker and Clements. Tuesday is Sis. Parker's birthday and this was her choice for a good birthday. It turns out she was right; we had a great time although it went 'way too fast. We didn't see near as much as we wanted to (we had to return home Sunday afternoon) but the things we did do were very enjoyable. The first thing we did is to attend the Nauvoo Temple (our first priority). Then we went to a bed & breakfast for an official English high "tea". Actually it wasn't tea at all; it was referred to with a smile as herbal infusion. We got three courses and a lot of ambiance. After the tea party, we went into the parlor for a reenactment of John & Leonora Taylor. They were extremely good. That took the rest of our day. The next day we went to sacrament meeting and then headed for the LDS visitors' center. We watched the Joseph Smith movie and cried through that. Afterward we saw that the visitors' center had a traveling display of sculpture. We found that the artist was there; we looked at the sculptures and talked extensively with the artist, Angela Johnson. See her website: www.ajsculptures.com We didn't have much time left to visit the homes and shops, but did a few. It was about 12:30 A.M. before I got home. Luckily I'm off work today; it's a professional development day where the teachers attend but I don't need to. Yea!!