A Fantastic Saturday!

Clogging is taking us places!  Like an audition for the Bill Riley Talent Show associated with the Sturgis Falls celebration.   Fortunately for the audience, the cut-off age was 21--and the moms in our group were happy with that.  We love clogging too, but we're not quite ready for prime time. 

 The audition was at Lincoln school, and the kids were great.  Lots of energy.  And they look like they've been at this a lot longer than 3 months.  (We started on March 1st).

Can't wait to hear if they got in or not!

Then we were off to Nauvoo.  

After taking in one of the shows done by the young performing 

missionaries (and they were very good!),

we performed baptisms.  

It is so nice being in the temple with a good group of youth.

And I had about 25 names to do.  A & E each had 8 females and Jacob Fagersten did the male names.  

 Then it was a picnic supper of hoagies, cookies, chips, etc.  

The weather was superb--dry, 70 degrees.

We finished eating just in time for "Sunset at the Mississippi", 

which is on the stage where "City of Joseph" used to be performed. 

I could seriously see myself as one of those older missionaries! 

I'd be happy to put on some goofy costume for the melodramatic skit,

or dance to a hoe down,

or sing some silly song about mustaches.  And I'm sure I could tell 

all about the bakery or the gun shop or one of the other locations.

Some of the skits were so hilarious--my jaw hurt from laughing.

And it was SO good to laugh.  

I've been taking life too seriously the past couple of weeks.

And to top off the night,

the BYU Folk Dancers performed.

 It was unfortunate that we still had to drive home afterwards, 

because A & E were right in their element.

They got out their clogging shoes and jammed with some of the dancers.

They talked to the band members (who were all really nice).

Elley is really beginning to look forward to college next year!

Now she just has to decide if she wants to be in the band 

or one of the dancers!  

Both girls now have high aspirations.  And that's good.

The day finally had to come to an end,

and we got home about 1:30 a.m. 

It was REALLY nice that we had afternoon church!

We are going to miss Nauvoo...