P-Day shopping and Sunset play

Saturday is our Preparation Day. We drive to Keokuk, Iowa about 12 miles away across the bridge over the Mississippi River. They have a Wal-Mart. No health food store though. We went to watch the play Sunset by the Mississippi to see how they performed it. We are in "X" cast. 3 casts all together. It is a great "Nauvoo Hoedown" show. Then we stayed and watched the Hughes Brothers perform. 5 LDS brothers and their families (40 in all). They perform in Branson, Missouri 10 months out of the year. They were fantastic. So a fun Saturday.

Doing a show at the Cultural Hall

Here we are with our cast at the front of the Cultural Hall where we do one of the plays..It last an hour and we do it two times a night twice a week. Lot of singing and fun....The other pictures are of us having lunch a home with our mowers....Yes we take them to lunch....and I had a chance to bag grass...here is the pile I made today..

A different view of the Temple

Here we are mowing again and looking at the Temple, I think they like us to mow here, because we do it soooo good. How do you like our work clothes...blue jeans and blue shirts....with a name tag....weather was very hot again today....

Play practice for Sunset on the Mississippi

Today is Monday and we Mowed alot of grass..Here is Elder Francis and his new BIG hat to kept the sun off....It was over 80 today....The other pictures are of us at practice for Sunset...I am playing the guitar...It is true, I just strum along and it is fun.....We have to learn 5 songs for this play and 6 for the one we do at the Cultural hall in old Nauvoo.

Lunch on the Mississippi

Here we are having lunch on the Big River, It was a perfect day ..Then we had a Cast party that night here are some of the people we do the plays with....We are in the X cast there are about 60 people in each cast...We do two different plays..as they come we will send pictures...

Working in the Womens garden

Here is Pam and I working in the Women's garden next to the Visitors Center..She is taking a break and I am working..It is really hard work, I am getting a great work out everyday..... The other picture is of us in our "Rendezvous" outfits...It is a play they do here every night...we are in it two nights a week for two performances each night....More pictures to come

NRI Here are the workers

This is a picture of all the NRI group..the hard workers..the Jose of the Mission..Most of these people are professional elec. or painters, or mechanics, gardeners, welders, etc..then there is Dr. Francis and Sister F.....

Great day in Nauvoo

Today we both got to mow allllll day.. We started at the Temple and worked down the hill we think we mowed a total of 20 acres today.....here are the pictures...one is mom and I taking a break, and one is me ...I got to close to the tree and it lifted me up...I thought I hit something under me and it was lifting me up.....It was the roll bar hitting a limb...

Big rains blocked roads

We drove to a small town in Missouri to buy some hats and we could not get thru....Sister Francis wanted to drive thru this but I said no....Ha Ha Ha

The Visitor Center

Here we are at the Visitors Center with Joseph Smith He was very nice to stop and have his picture with us.....The spirit of Joseph Smith is very strong here

Break time

Her is Sister Francis taking a break from mowing..Isn't she cute....And the mower is sooooo big....

Mowing Lawns in Nauvoo

Here we are with our own personal John Deer Diesel Lawn mower...we are doing the lawn in front of the Temple and it is BIG.....It was very cold our first day...