Thursday, December 2, 2010

Nauvoo Trip

So last month we took a 2 week vacation across a few states to Nauvoo. Me, Calvi, Brooke, Clara, my parents, and my grandparents all went on the trip. Tyler was able to fly out and meet us for a few days while we were actually in Nauvoo. It was a long but exciting trip. Here we are at our first stop Custers last stand.
Next stop Mt Rushmore, this was pretty exciting to see although it is a little smaller than what i had imagined but it was still a huge sculpture on a mountain!! Going in November we were a little afraid of the weather but lucky for us it was awesome the whole time not to cold and not snowy!!
Here we are hangin out at Wall Drug with some local.
This is a really awesome building we saw along the way the Corn palace, the entire outside and some inside it decorated in only corn products like corn cobs and stalks and anything corn! It was pretty amazing.
Here we are in Nauvoo at the brick store, this was one of tys favorite places to go see he also like the blacksmith shop. Since we were there in November it was great cause there was hardly any people there. The people were so friendly and since we were there a few days they all could recognize you and we were able to have one on one time with them.
These are the graves of Joseph, Emma and Hyrum Smith.
Here we are at the Nauvoo temple. it was really pretty but closed for cleaning while we were there. The actual town of Nauvoo was pretty small there was not much else other than a lot of church sites.
Here we are at liberty Jail this is the room where Joseph Smith was shot. It was really neat there was no one else there so we could take time and look around it was a pretty neat place.
This is also one of tylers favorite parts the Mississippi River! it was so huge and since he loves water he loved this.
Here is ty showing calvi the huge barge out on the river it went right past us and it was really really big! The sun was going down and it was so pretty to just sit by the river and look out at the view.
And here is ty and Calvi just hangin out on the grass enjoying the sun! I do have more pictures to come it was a long trip and we saw a lot but that is enough posting for a day!

3 comments:

Alisha and Braeden said...

Looks like you guys had some fun! Brit I love your bangs they are so cute! Your hair looks so good. Are you in the process of growing it out? Anyway I love it :)

Danielle said...

Looks SOOO fun! And HOLY COW you're a babe! SERIOUSLY! I looooooooove your hair! love love love it! We need to hang out now that you're home! I've missed you. Calvi looks so cute in the pics.

The Congers said...

I am with Alisha and Danielle I like the bangs, way cute! But I am so happy you finally posted about the trip I have been checking everyday for this post. It looks like a lot of fun.