5/13/07 A Day for Exploring the Area

First order of business is to wish all but especially Snookie's own mother a Happy Mother's Day!

This campground was pretty busy over the weekend and this morning by eleven o'clock it looked like this.
This isn't a "destination" park mostly just overnighters since it is situated so close to I-44. We did hear that come summer some campers will stay for a few days to visit the caverns but mostly it will just be overnighters.

Bob put up our hummingbird feeder this morning in hopes of drawing these tiny birds to our campsite.

We did have one visitor to our tree and it had wings but it wasn't a hummingbird.

There do seem to be lots of butterflies in this area.

We finally got on the road to see whats around here. We made a right out of the campground and three miles down the road we found the Meramec Caverns. We didn't go into the caverns today, we'll save that for another day, after all we'll be here for awhile. The caverns sit on the Meramec River and they run the Cavern Queen Riverboat. This boat takes about a mile ride down the river the pilot tells about the history of the area.

The view from the banks of the Meramec Caverns.

All up and down the river are swimming holes that were put to good use today.

We also checked out the Meramec State Park which is just wonderful! I've said it before and I'll say it again, Delaware has so much to learn from other states about running state parks! This particular state park even has its own motel! Seeing that was a first for us. We'll be going back to this park again and again as it has good fishing access for the Meramec River.

We arrived home around five so that we could get dinner out of the way before the Survivor finale came on. Remember, we see prime time shows at seven instead of eight like we're used to.

All in all it was a great day for us here in Missouri.