OK, I said we were going to Mud Island today and we did!!!! However, do you see any pictures???? No, that is my husbands fault...he forgot the camera.
Mud Island was pretty cool. It was a place over the Mississippi that is just a little island that they did a 5 block mock-up of the Mississippi River. (Jane you would have loved this as a field trip except you would have been pulling wet feet out of the river all day!) They took the Mississippi and made made a model...to scale...of the Mississippi all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. They didn't show the river too much from Minnesota, Iowa or Missouri, but did talk about how it starts in Itasca and then comes down....they really did in detail the last 200 miles or so of the Mississippi. It kinds of started in Cape Girardeau (where we will be tomorrow) and Cairo, IL....then down to the Gulf. It show the depths, the rivers that run into it, the history along the river that formed the now existing river. It was very original and very interesting history of the Mississippi. The river is full down here and every drop of rain that is falling up your way will affect the rise and flow of the river down here.
Basically we did nothing today until we went there....it rained until 2:30 this afternoon.
I am going to get our "fried chicken fix"....not sure if it will be KFC or what.???
Will catch up in Cape Girardeau.
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