Day 7 - Nauvoo to Omaha

We got up and went back to Nauvoo to go to church and then went back to Nauvoo to see a few more sites.  We went to the family living center and went to the demonstrations on how they made bread, how they made barrels, how they made rope, and a few other things.  It was interesting and the rope demonstration was very cool.  We didn't have much time because we had to get headed to Omaha and Winter Quarters.

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We headed to Nebraska.  All of us were again going different directions based on our GPS, but we ended up having to turn around because they told us to meet them in a town that wasn't on our GPS route, so we were about an hour behind everyone by that time and then they didn't even stop there.  You gotta love road trips and caravaning.  We made a brief stop in Ottumwa to see if we could get a grape Ne-hi, no luck....

We got in one doozey of a rain storm and missed our exit for Winter Quarters.  We couldn't even see.  We were running on fumes, so stopped at a gas station before we turned around and found out their pumps were out because of a lightning strike.  So, we turned around and did make it to Winter Quarters.  Our tour guide there was awesome and we kind of had the run of the place to ourselves.  The kids had fun dressing up in Pioneer garb and pulling the handcart.

We were going to stop for pizza at Cece's, but they were closed by the time we got out of there.  So we just went to our hotel and ordered pizza in and ate in their breakfast room.

Everyone had to re-arrange rooms.  Actually, our room was fine, but everyone else had broken beds, broken lights, etc. and took a while to get all settled.

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