We took a few pictures outside the temple afterwards. It was fairly hot, and the kids were over it.
Then we went to the historic town. We parked just in time to hop on a horse-drawn wagon. We thought it was the tour of the town, but it just went around some woods while a guy told stories about people who knew Joseph Smith. Our kids weren't that interested.
We were up against nap time, so we decided to go see the brick yard. Eric said we could watch them make bricks, but really they just talked about making bricks, and then our boys each got a brick to bring home. It was supposed to be about ten minutes long, but it was definitely closer to twenty. Again, our kids were just so over it.
We contemplated visiting one of the houses, but we had just missed the start of the tour and didn't want to wait for another one. With nap time coming soon, we hopped in the van and headed over to Carthage.
After our kids' poor behavior at Nauvoo, I was nervous about how they'd do at Carthage Jail, which is a pretty solemn place. Miraculously, the boys were quite well-behaved. Trixie was still pretty wild, but she didn't have to be ejected from the tour, so I call it a win.
We'll have to do Nauvoo and Carthage again sometime when our kids are bigger, and when it's not so blasted hot.
We snapped a photo outside of the jail and headed to our campsite.
We camped that night at Starved Rock State Park in Illinois. I shared my tent with Felicia, and while Eric was getting his tent ready, Trixie came and partied with us. Our kids all did great with camping, and we will need to do more of it now that they are all competent campers.
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I love your energy! You did so many things and then camped at the end. I recall it being really hot there at that time.
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