Vacation to Mt. Rushmore & Nauvoo

These pictures are kind of in backward order, but we went on vacation to Mt. Rushmore, then on to Minden, NE (where we found the gravesite of my great-grandparents Willis Emery & Etta Melinda Green and my great-grandfather William Lafayette Brown). We then made it to Independence, Missouri on the 4th of July and watched fireworks over the Missouri River. We visited the temple site in Independence, then to Liberty Jail where Joseph Smith received some awesome revelations, then to the temple site at Far West, the site of the Haun's Mill Massacre, Adam-ondi-Ahman, and finally to the Amish community of Jamesport. the next day we went Hannibal, Missouri (the boyhood home of Mark Twain) and road on a riverboat on the Mississippi River. The next day we visited Carthage Jail where the Prophet Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum were assassinated, and finally on to Nauvoo. We spent 2 days in Nauvoo, visiting all of the historical sites and doing baptisms in the Nauvoo Temple. We walked along the Trail of Hope where the Saints left their beautiful city along Parley Street, looking back on the temple on the hill, the dragging their wagons over the frozen Mississippi to Iowa. We were ready to go home, so we drove for 20 hours, driving 1,300 miles and reached home at midnight on Friday. It was a fabulous trip.