The Current river is down a couple feet and a bit clearer. But not clear enough for us to want to kayak it. Beautiful historic downtown Mansfield, Missouri. We are staying just out of town.
Beautiful historic downtown Mansfield, Missouri. We are staying just out of town. Some plants and flowers from the RV park we are staying in. We have a nice campsite at the Laura Ingalls Wilder RV park, just across the street from the museum. Trees, shade, space and a picnic table. The sign says Park you little house on our prairie.
Laura Ingalls Wilder's historic home Rocky Ridge Farm. Below is the museum. After Laura died they kept the house exactly as she left it when she died in 1957 at 92 years old. and have been giving tours ever since. In the museum here is her office where she wrote all the Little house on the Prairie books. Her most famous, Little house on the Prairie is about how her family moved to Kansas and lived on the prairie. I hadn't realized that all her books are true, they are her life. A bookshelf of her books translated into many languages, her glass washboard. I didn't even know they made glass washboards. And Pa's dear old fiddle- her fathers fiddle.
The current masterpiece in progress.I am making a basket around a piece of birch bark from Wisconsin. The pond in the RV park tonight.
We headed west again today. We drove by Springfield, Mo. It is in rolling green hills with oak trees. Rested in Mt Vernon, saw the sign for the Precious Moments Chapel. It is supposed to be over done with the cute little cartoon characters with the huge eyes. It sounds way too cute, cute enough to be stupid so I have to stop and see it, it is on our way, Ozarkland says Road Trip Calories Don't Count. They sell all kinds of candy and souvenirs, and Ha-Way is Hello in Quapaw. We are staying at the Downriver Casino on the Quapaw reservation. I thought this tanker was full of coffee. John says it is not, just an ad for the pilot coffee. Welcome to Missouri. The casino is in Oklahoma and the gas station and RV park are across the highway in Missouri. . .
We are staying at the Downstream RV park at the Downstream Casino. If you sign up for their players card you get one night free in the RV park. We each got one and are getting 2 nights free. The RV park is a giant cement parking lot with no shade, but it has 50 amp hookups so we can run both AC units. Ok for free. We gambled some. I love this Fireball slot machine, I always win on it. I left the casino with $3 more than I fed into them, so I call that good. More progress on the masterpiece today while we were driving.
Today is the 12th anniversary of when we met. We got married common law by signing our taxes as married in 2011. We had a spiritual wedding ceremony on the Colorado River on Memorial day weekend 2011 on June 3. When we applied for medicare and my retiree health insurance they wanted paper proof that we are married so we used the Domestic Partnership agreement we signed so John could get on my company supplied health insurance, that was Jan 20, 2010. John says he will only remember one date. Since our first date was 06/06/06 or 666 he remembers that date and we celebrate them all then. We went out to dinner at the Red Hot and Blue BBQ. They played blues music and served hot BBQ, On our way home we stopped at the Tri State Corner monument conveniently located on the casino grounds. The place where Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri meet. John has one foot in three states.
Sunset tonight at the RV park.
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