Hannibal

Just back from Hannibal. I am not sure everyone there realizes Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and Becky Thatcher were literary characters. I know they are based on real residents of Hannibal from Samuel Clemmons real life, but the houses don't say "Mary's house," who Becky was based on. They say Becky Thatchers house, etc. So I was confused some of the time.

While there, we toured the museum and houses, shopped the down town shops, took a riverboat ride (it had a fake paddle), swam in the hotel pool- you know that was the favorite of the 4 kids- took the cave tour and saw Lovers Leap, where a couple of old ladies were rescued the week before. My favorite was the cave. I've toured a lot of caves, and this one was very easy to get around in and and had lots of old graffiti signatures, including one from Jesse James. They said that there was a signature from Samuel Clemmons too. Here's the funny thing, They had experts verify the Jesse James signature, but not the Clemmons one. I found that an odd move by the proprietors of the Tom Sawyer cave...

On the way home, we got a break from the rain so we stopped at Osage Beach and played a round of mini golf.

All in all, a fun weekend!