We got an early start today, seven hours to Mt. Rushmore. We stopped in Carthage, IL. and saw the jail where they held Joseph Smith. Took lots of pictures, typical touristy thing. Then we went to Nauvoo, IL. and toured the Community of Christ site. We didn’t take the actual tour, but drove around and read signs and saw sites. We did go into the Scovil Bakery and the Theatre and watched a play that was for kids, it was cute. Behind the theatre we went into a building where people taught how to make candles out of lard, weave rugs and cloth, do pottery, make bread, and build different kinds of barrels. We then went up to the Nauvoo Temple that is now owned by the LDS Church, took more pictures. After Nauvoo we then
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