After 20 years of camping in Big Sur over Labor Day weekend, this year, being 2300 miles away, we (well, most of us) decided to do something different. While Ben enjoyed the Big Sur camping trip with our dear friends in California, Becky, Hope and John went to Nauvoo, Carthage, and Springfield, Illinois. We had a wonderful weekend sightseeing, playing old games, going on a horse-drawn carriage ride, and visiting the Nauvoo temple. Our new good friends - the Elberts - recently bought a home in Nauvoo, and we spent a delightful evening having dinner, swimming, looking at classic cars, and biking through Nauvoo with them. On Sunday we visited Carthage, where Joseph and Hyrum Smith were killed, and then headed to Springfield, in the heart of the "Land of Lincoln." We visited Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln's home (the photo shows the doorbell that Abe made, and a replica of the nameplate on their front door). We also visited the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum - a spectacular museum with many relics and impressive multimedia productions.
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