July 23, 2016 - Saturday in Nauvoo

Our day started very early this morning with our assignment at the Handcart Station.  It was a very warm and humid morning, and our first group was scheduled at 7:00am.  The heat index was already heading up to the extreme setting, and we were concerned about some of those visitors taking on the trek.  We had three groups taking the one mile trek and one group taking the three mile trek.  

My concern was mostly with the three mile trekkers because they did not start the trek until about 9:30am.  Normally the three mile route takes up to three hours, and the heat index was rising steadily all morning.  They got back at about 12 noon and they were pretty hot and tired.  I made sure they had lots of water and got them heading to the Visitors Center to cool off as soon as we could.  

Some of the cloud covering at 80% humidity and 90 degree temperatures

Just plain hot and muggy day!

I kept an eye on the three milers today

This is all farm land the Saints worked in the 1840's

The little girl in pink looked back at me and said; "Best day ever!"

Mom and I got home at 12:20pm and quickly took showers.  We then headed to the temple to catch the 1:00pm temple session.  However, when we got there, the parking spots were full.  We decided to wait until Monday when most of the Pageant crowd will be heading home.  The afternoon was spent in our cool and quiet little cottage and retreat from the craziness of Nauvoo on the last week of Pageant.

Our Rendezvous play was lightly attended.  Both shows had about 75 in attendance.  However the air conditioning felt so good and was so much better being inside the theater than outside in the humidity.  We both felt good about the shows tonight!