Nauvoo

I really like visiting Nauvoo, IL. I enjoy touring the old houses that have stood almost 200 years, I like the different 'shops' that show how life was 200 years ago, and I really like how everything is green and pretty. Each time we go I have been into the old Lucy Mack house and can't believe how steep the stairs were, and how they had a wooden board that lowered to cover the stairs off when kids were upstairs. I do get a little nervous when the boards creek under my feet, or when the upstairs floor is really slanted from age, but to think that the houses withstood time for a few hundred years is pretty amazing.

This time we enjoyed visiting the Family Life Center where the kids were able to see how to make bread (so much harder, and time consuming then with my Bosch), rug weaving, rope braiding, etc... I don't recall going into to that building last time- looked newer. We loved the cookie samples in the bakery, nail rings from the welder, the little brick from the brickyard (which is now in an air conditioned building). And playing pioneer games at the park was a lot of fun -everyone dressed up like pioneers and paraded around with the traveling band.

We were able to stay about a day in Nauvoo, but then had to leave to head a little further north to Freeport, Illinois.