September 28, 2013

Had a good night sleep inspite of being in the sl. rough current.  Took a walk up to the Farmer's Market this morning 2 blocks up hill, sharp grade, got our heart rates up.  Neat market in the center of downtown park, collard greens, kale, lemon grass, heirloom tomatoes, English cucmbers, green peppers, onions, apples, 2 hubbard squash were our big purchases. also went to a flea market saw some cool things that you would see in the south and just normal stuff at an old flea market.  Took off around 9:30 am but had to wait for the lock which was about 45 min.  This was a 40 ft drop with ballards..  A couple hours later we were in Hannibal at 12:54 going under the bridge when it finally started pouring cats and dogs or buckets of water.  Wasn't supposed to start until 1:00pm.  Found a nice marina, shallow water coming in.  Parked, tied up the boat, steam boat captain watching us the whole time, probably wondering what the heck we were doing with our foulies on in the pouring rain.  Sat for a few minutes then decided we are already wet so let's go see Hannibal.  Walked a block and found a movie theater.  Both agreed sitting in a dry movie theater eating a jumbo container of popcorn and large drink watching a movie was the perfect afternoon today anyway.  Saw The Millers, funny but certainly had some X rated parts, glad the kids weren't with us.  We came out, sun was shining warm and humid, took our wet jackets that at dried in the movie theater office off and went for a tour of  Hannibal, kid of spit rain off and on for the rest of the evening.  Decided to go on the Trolley for a Ghost Tour of Hannibal, got to grave witch the old cemetery, too wet for the sticks to be accurate.  Saw grave stones that 1833 dates of death.  Didn't see any that had who's slave they were but the tour guide said they were there.  Amazing the history in this area, some say this is the cemetery Mark Twain wrote about in his books.  Also went by the cave Mark Twain was in and wrote about.  Finally got to go to a quilt shop, enjoy the pictures.  Learned a lot by the stories of the tour guide.  Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter was a book based upon the Dr. McDonald who performed an experiment on preserving his dead 14 year old daughter's body in a copper cylinder in the cave with alcohol mixture.

lunch, pasta salad, made enough for two days, better the second day

Upscale Restaurant over the water, leaving Quincy Boat Club.

bridges to go under and waiting for the railroad bridge to open.

Isn't this a cute quilt pattern, didn't look like the yellow circle was appliqued

I think this is the pattern of the pink and white blocks Mom gave me to finish, she aid she it was a baby quilt she started when she was pregnant with me.

They were using them as table cloths, can you believe that Bobbi?  Actual 30's fabric too.

Neat archectiture of the buildings, this was in Quincy across from the Farmer's Market

Leaving the Quincy Boat Club, had a good time last night visiting with the members, they were so nice to us.  Mentioned the book "No more Mondays".  a must read.

Resturant again, waves were high, wind blowing today

This is the Moroccan Archecture, only castle of it's kind, called Villa Kathrine, he had built it in late 1800's for wife to be who had died on her way from Europe, never to have seen it.  Story is Bingo the dog buried somewhere on the property, tale that you can here him bark sometimes.

Amazing to see the houses on such high pillars because of all the flooding

Coming into Hannibal, huge houses on the hill.

Hope the swing bridge will open quickly since rain is starting to get harder

 

 

Curt is in the boat, gave me the foulies to stay dry, wasn't that nice:(

Our boat safe in the marina

Might as well go for a walk since we're already wet

Neat QUILT SHOP, took this picture for Bobbi and her polka dots, double clink for a full big picture, thought Sue might like this one or Carol( but a little mild for you)