Hannibal MO

Just another pretty house. Mississippi River. We went to the Mark Twain Museum. We took the Trolley tour of Hannibal MO it was a nice tour and our guide was a real comedian, Neil thought he was hilairous..

To left is Tom Sawyer's House and lower middle is Becky Thatcher's house being re-done and a model of Mark Twain Riverboat Ride

Of course, Tom & Huck and there was Neil (remember) the old guy.

Mark Twain Statue

We leave here in the morning and go about 120 mi to Springfield IL, to the Lincoln Library.. So until next time,,,,,,,Be Safe & Healthy Love ya N&S

Hannibal MO

We're in Hannibal MO, we'll be here tonight and tomorrow and then head to Springfield IL. and then we'll be heading west. We're going to make a couple of stops and a couple of rest days and then we'll get home in Sept.. Got appts to keep then. Back to the real world. I am trying to keep up with the blog, but I'm getting slow or old one, gets harder, or maybe I'm just getting Really Lazy. Until next time, Be Safe and Happy N&S

Hermann Mo

You Might be a redneck if you have a Nuclear Plant at the end of your driveway.

You Might be a Redneck if you have a windchime like this one.

You might be a redneck if you have a refrigerator on your front porch for your beer, You Might be Redneck if you still have all your garbage and it's all in your front yard.

This place is where we bought some wonderful German Bologna, salami and cheeses. I got Ginger apricot and also cinnamon apple cheese. They are really good.

This is supposed to be a German Town. I must be a German because I thought all the businesses and homes that are brick were all my favorites. I have always loved brick buildings. We only spent one day here, so it was a brief sightseeing trip.

Branson MO

We didn't take hardly any pics in Branson. We went to the Dixie Stampede. We went with Bill & Ione to the dinner show. The food was good, fun and a great show. We stayed at Ione's house in Joplin. We felt like we were Royality. We got there Fri. and had a wonderful dinner and then we went swimming, the water felt cold when we got it, but it soon felt warm. The wind came up and then the water felt hot, but wonderful.

We were very lazy Sun. Neil was good, he went to church with Bill & Ione and I slept. They did go at 8AM, so I don't do 8am very well.

Fort Leavenworth

We went to Leavenworth KS today, and, of course, we had thunder, lightning and rain almost all day.

When we entered the gate on the Army Base, they had us get out,(In the Rain) and they searched the car. I don't think I've ever had a car searched like that before. The first two pictures (Below with the water) are the Memorial to the Buffalo Soldiers, at Fort Leavenworth, in KS

Neil really enjoys Museum's, but I think the Service ones are especially interesting to him. Remember though, The Truman Library, took 7 hours. Neil got a patch for his jacket, (of historic places we've been). I got a Christmas Ornament from there.

The sleigh below was Custer's Sleigh. I may not have been to history classes in school, but I'm sure getting it now.

Don't know if we'll go tomorrow, we're both tired this evening. We didn't get home until 5:ooPM, my computer is still on PST, so I'm not crazy, and I do know how to tell time. Until Later N&S

Lawrence KS.

Susan and her flowers. The building (on Left) is just an old brick building we saw in Lawrence KS. today. Below Left is just a cool old house.

These were churches. I just love brick and rock buildings (especially with Ks weather). There are severe weather warnings in So. Topeka right now. WE could see the storm off to the north when we were on our way home. I would imagine it will hit Lawrence a little later. Glad we got out of there. This weather is insane, but everyone here says it is nothing compared to earthquakes. Everyone seems to think that houses and people just fall into the big holes and houses fall in the ocean All the time, so eventually all of Ca is going in the ocean. I personally have had enough of the thunder, lightning, wind, tornado warnings, not too mention the snow and Ice in the winter.

Picture on left is downtown Lawrence. We walked 4 blocks of it.

We had my cousin Bill over for dinner Sunday. We had a very nice visit and he told us we could see the Space station & Shuttle at 9:59PM last night. He was still here, Thank Goodness, otherwise Neil & I would have both forgotten. We went to see if we could find it, we did. We watched it for 3 minutes go all the way across the night sky, and just all of a sudden it was gone. It was really great to get to see it. Thanks Bill

Gardens

Today we went to Kingsville, Mo to Powell Gardens. They were on 925 acres. We didn't get to see all of it, but what we did see was beautiful.