Ignore the dates on most of my posts. I'm always a few days behind. This weekend was crazy busy. Saturday was our P-day, but it's a good thing we got our chores done during the week. The schedule for the next week hadn't been posted by Friday night, so I checked it Saturday morning and discovered we were assigned to a site on Sunday! So after a nice leisurely morning, with a pancake and sausage breakfast, we dressed in our Sunday clothes and headed to Browning Gun so we could at least get an idea of the tour. Elder Weldon, who we came out with, gave us a very thorough tour.
Bootiful Nauvoo started at 2:00 with pumpkins being launched from a canon. I tried to take a picture of it firing but the pumpkin went way too high. The men firing it were having a great time seeing which pumpkin went highest and landed farthest away.
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| Gun Powder and ammunition |
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| Fire in the hole. |
The weather was beautiful all day, cool enough for October, but very mild. I was told that last year it was freezing cold and the year before that it was 89 degrees. Welcome to Illinois.
Now it was time to make Kettle Corn. Friday we bagged 1500 bags, because people start lining up for it faster than it can be made on site. It's popular because #1 it's delicious and #2 it's free. Around the corner from where we were bagging corn a woman stood on the balcony of the Mercantile and sang Phantom of the Opera pieces, along with the Temple recorder singing up to her from the front lawn. They sang beautifully.
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| Cooking |
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| Bags of corn and free candy from the YSM |
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| Waiting for the corn to be ready to bag |
The parade started at 6:00. First came the baby oxen pulling their little wagon that one of the missionaries made. I was too late to the parade to get a photo of them. The parade consisted of many people dressed in costume, Noah and his wife, Ghostbusters, and some entries by the missionaries pictured below.
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| Citizens of Nauvoo |
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| Noah, wife, and Dinosaurs |
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| Missionaries crazy band |
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| Followed by crazy dancers |
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| Ghost Busters |
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| And the Dragon |
After our kettle corn shift ended, Dee and I strolled down the street with the other 6,000 people to see if we could find our pumpkins. We enjoyed delicious homemade quiche while we looked at all of the pumpkins. It was a lovely date. Stefanie, a young French mother who has a Children's workshop business, baked the quiche.
Happy Halloween from Bootiful Nauvoo.
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| Dragon |
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| Scorpion and horse |
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| Johnny Dep |
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| witch |
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| Muholand Street and balcony where the girl sang from. |
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| Along a path |
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