2014 Nauvoo Trip - Part 2

Friday Aug 1, 2014

After breakfast, we piled in the car and set off to see the sites of old Nauvoo. We started at the Pioneer Pastimes area, where we played a lot of fun games. The kids walked on stilts, walked bears up ropes, and played all sorts of other games that pioneer children might have played. 

After a while, we made our way to the theater, where we watched a play, called "Just Plain Anna Amanda". It was just as cute as I remembered it. After the play, the actors came out to talk with the audience members. Once again, Peter got to talk with Sister Romney, the missionary he had seen and talked with the evening before, and he even got his picture taken with her.

After the play, we went back to our car and ate lunch. Then we went to the Family Living Center, and got to watch several demonstrations, including bread making, candle making, weaving, rope making, pottery, and coopering (barrel making).

Later that afternoon we went to the Visitor's Center. We spent a little while looking at the various displays before going into the west theater to watch a play. It was called "The Promise", but last time we saw it, I think it was called "High Hopes and River Boats". Peter's friend, Sister Romney was in this play too, and he was excited to see her.

We returned to our camp site for dinner and to relax for a while, before returning to watch "Sunset on the Mississippi" again (we missed the beginning the evening before), and then going to the country fair and to watch the British pageant which was performed that night.

I enjoyed watching the British pageant. I loved the music and the story. During the pageant, however, there was a storm coming in. The wind blew, and lightning shot down out of the clouds beyond the stage. Peter was frightened and insisted on curling up on my lap. At one point, a voice came on to announce that a storm was coming through, and that the show would pause while it rained, but it would resume after the storm had passed. The audience was advised to seek shelter. We had parked in the Visitor's Center parking lot, some distance away, so we hurried through the rain back to our car. We drove back to our campsite, where we left Peter and John, but the rest of us grabbed our jackets and returned, arriving just in time to watch the remainder of the pageant.