Allen Family Adventures

Before we left Omaha we went to the Winter Quarters visitors center.  For those of you who don't know what it is...Winter Quarters is where many LDS people lived through a winter on their way to the Salt Lake Valley.  For their own safety, they left Nauvoo, IL during the winter months.  The built a settlement known as Winter Quarters (now in Omaha) where they stayed until they could finished their journey across the wilderness to Salt Lake.  It was a wonderful place to visit.  There were many replicas of things from their time including a cabin, ox and wagon, steamship the English Saints would have come to the Americas on, and much more.  Right across the street is the Winter Quarters cemetary and temple, both of which were extremely beautiful.