This past week, I had all the week off and Kim had most of the week off. So we took a trip down to Nauvoo and Carthage. Our first stop was Carthage, which nice except that it was undergoing restoration, so we couldn't go in the room where Joseph and Hyrum were shot.
Once we got to Nauvoo we went to the Red Brick Store, which has some cool history behind it. We just visited the outsides of the rest of the buildings owned by Community of Christ because we didn't want to go on a tour.

We went to a session at the temple. It is a very beautiful temple, both inside and out.

I think this was a sunstone from the original temple. Anyhow, it was near the visitor's center, it looked pretty cool.

Kim has been to Nauvoo before but never went down to the banks of the Mississippi. We both touched the water so we can say we've been in it. We also found a geode on the bank.
Unfortunately they were still on winter hours so we didn't have time to go in any of the replica buildings. We did go to the play put on by the senior missionaries. It was a hoot.
Another misfortune was that the Hotel Nauvoo restaurant was closed. So we resorted to going to Grandpa John's cafe, which we don't recommend.