Day 2!

After staying overnight in exciting Nebraska we were on our way again, bright and early. We drove through the rest of Nebraska, Iowa, and our last stop for the day.... Nauvoo, Illinios! I had never been there before, and Curtis had been when he was younger, so we were really excited.

Little funny side story, on our way driving (in the middle of nowhere Iowa, I don't know which little town we were in) we saw a sign that said 'American Gothic House 1 mile'. I love haunted things, and it sounded like it was something scary so I looked at Curtis and said we had to go see what it was. After going out of our way, following the signs that said 'American Gothic House' and driving through these skinny streets with our big truck , the anticipation was climbing. I was so excited. As soon as we arrived, much to our suprise, this is what we saw.. 



The thin streets we drove through to get there....



So we yet to find out what the Gothic House Center really is. It was closed when we drove by. It didn't look too exciting though. We were a little dissappointed.

 Anyways....

 We ended up getting to Nauvoo around 6 that night. We got there right after all of the shops and buildings had closed so we just drove around that night and got out and walked around the historic city of Nauvoo and the Nauvoo temple. It sure was beautiful!! Here are some pics from that night.

We were able to do a session at this temple early the next morning and they gave us a little tour of the baptismal font! It was so neat!

That night Curtis got us a little cabin hotel to stay in. It was so adorable! Actual pioneer families stayed in them back in the day and they have about 6 or so of them on this lot that you are able to stay on. Here are some pictures of our Cabin. It was the Van Fleet's Family cabin. They give you a little book with a couple pages about that family. We never read it because Curtis thought it would be creepy to read about them. (I agreed). LOL

 That concludes our day 2 adventure!! There will be more to come !!!