Today we had the privilege of attending an endowment session at the Nauvoo temple. Of course, we always love going to the temple, and have tried to go at least once a month since we've been back in the States. But going to the Nauvoo temple was such a blessing. It is absolutely beautiful. They not only restored the outside nearly exactly, but they went to great lengths to re-do the inside as much as possible. They used wooden floors, spiral staircases, and beautiful artwork. Even the celestial room has wonderful color and period pieces of furniture.
After the temple, we had lunch at "Grandpa John's" cafe. Then we took a different wagon ride from the visitors center, and saw some of the back woods, and heard great stories of pioneers. We finished up visiting other buildings we still hadn't seen. One fun place is the family living center, where we saw them making barrels, pottery, rope, candles, weaving, and baking bread. We also went to the Seventies Hall, the first dedicate missionary training center. Again, we found names of some of our ancestors there.
We then had to get back to prepping for our continuing our trip: vacuuming the car, washing clothes, packing the knick-knacks we bought, repacking our clothes, etc. Of course, we had to have dinner, so we had the -- you guessed it -- buffet in our hotel. Certainly not gourmet, but plentiful.
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