In Nauvoo, we stayed in the family suites. It nice to have a kitchen and separate bedrooms we could actually put the kids to bed in. Plus, we got to have Shawn's parents and Bruce and Joe stay with us!
Going to the Nauvoo temple was one of the very best parts of our trip. It's so beautiful, inside and out, and very spiritually powerful. We got to do an endowment session and baptisms!
Here's Annie and Mike standing in front of the statue "Calm as a Summer's Morn" of Joseph and Hyrum as they were taken to Carthage.
Dave and Michelle, Annie and Mike, Maxine and Lynn and Shawn and Becca after our temple session.
Sarah, Annie and Mike on the wagon ride/tour of old Nauvoo. Sarah thinks Annie and Mike are pretty cool.
This is the Nauvoo House/Hotel. If you look closely on the right, you will see sandbags and water where it clearly shouldn't be. The Mississippi floods did come up this far, and the days before we arrived, the town worked very hard to get sandbags up to keep this building from being destroyed.
Four of the Droge women, standing in the Meeting Room above the Red Brick Store. This is the room where the Relief Society was organized.
Ethan in the meeting room above the Red Brick Store
Sarah in the meeting room above the red brick store
Here's the complete Droge clan that made it to Nauvoo, standing in front of the Red Brick Store.
Mike and Annie at the Brick Yard
Michelle, Sammy and Dave at the Brickyard
Ethan, Shawn, Sarah and Becca at the Brickyard. The kids thought the bricks were pretty cool, and Ethan REALLY wanted to climb them.
Sarah and Aunt Annie holding their bricks
This quote sits on a monument outside Carthage Jail. I was so deeply touched by these words, I had to take a picture so I wouldn't forget.
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