Day nine; Tuesday, July 8th, 2014

Yesterday, first thing, we visited Carthage Jail.

The place where Joseph was murdered has an air of tragedy, even yet. What a blow his death was to the saints that were in Nauvoo!

Enchantress is hustling to get into the picture.

Enthusiastic got a harmonica as a souvenir; she is constantly playing it.

That is Carthage Jail in the background, by the way.

The rest of the day we drove.

We spent the night in Chicago, Illinois. Grandpa was pretty worried about us in Chicago, doing our shopping and staying the night in the parking lot of the hotel. Things went fine, but we did hear some startling statistics about Chicago as we were driving out of town. Like, over the Fourth of July weekend, there were over 50 murders in Chicag0 (maybe I am remembering it wrong, but both statistics we heard were pretty startling!).

Way shorter than normal, right? I am just giving you a day to rest and prepare for long posts ahead when we reach some bigger cities.

Ta ta!