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Another exciting week here in Nauvoo, the "City Beautiful".   The shutdown is officially over and the temple has opened for business Monday through Saturday.  Temple Engineers that are on a mission have Mondays off as a P-Day so we don't start till Tuesdays.  The first shift, for me, is at 5 PM on Tuesday at 5 PM.  Then I work Wednesday/Thursday the morning shift from 7 AM to 1 PM.  However, in order to not forget my ordinance work, I have opted to work an ordinance shift on Thursday evenings from 2:30 PM till 10 PM.  Fridays are 2 PM till 10 PM and Saturdays are 6 AM till 2 PM.  So the weeks are pretty filled with work and stuff to do.

So, today we did more genealogy and found a town about 2 hours away that has 36 listed Seger's buried there and they are still being planted there.  I couldn't find any direct relationship to any of my family but it is worth a look see in the future.

We did hit some more of the sites to see here in Nauvoo:

The Brick Yard.  Got the demo for how they used to build bricks in Nauvoo.  They had 7 brick yards at one time.  Made 45,000 to 60,000 bricks at a time.  That's a lot of brick's.  It took about 50,000 bricks to build a house.

Stopped by Lucy Mack Smith's house, the Prophet's mother.  This is the steepest staircase in Nauvoo.  They really like steep staircases here, for some odd reason.  

They got this armoire up that staircase.  I'm not sure how, but they did.  Lucy Mack Smith had arthritis pretty bad so she stayed downstairs.  Wonder why?

Arlene liked the tiny, tiny, real shoes on top of this dresser.

Stopped at the one room school house, the Calvin Pendleton School and Home.  So, you think your school is over-crowded?

We then stopped at the Browning Gun Shoppe.   The man that started the Browning gun company was a member and started in Nauvoo.  His son perfected things later on.  This is his gun cabinet.  He created the first repeating rifle in the center.