Field Trip: Hannibal

   Another trip out to see Hubby and some more stops on the way.  Right now Hannibal is a great place to stop and stretch our legs and wait for Hubby to get off of work.  This time we did a little more exploring of the town.  Our travels took us out to Lover's Leap which has an amazing view of the landscape.  We saw train tracks, barges, the steamboat, and speedboats.  When we told Ducky and Grandma where we had been they sent pictures of when I had gone to the same spot when I was Bubby and Mookie's age.

Mookie, Shorty and Bubby at Lover's Leap

Me & Ducky at Lover's Leap

  While we were there we compared the story of the two Native American "lovers" to the story of Romeo and Juliet that the kids had been reading over the past week - edged in a little literature discussion there ;)
  One of our favorite, and cheap, places to go is the local library wherever we are visiting.  So far both the ones we've been too have been great historic buildings.  Hannibal's was really neat because of all the fun things to play with, and Bubby discovered they had every single Hank the Cowdog book and maybe each Boxcar Children - that's important you know! 

  The day ending up with seeing Hubby and some treasures he found for us - a coral or crinoid fossil and coal, which leads into a science/art study just because - I love homeschooling!

Bubby drawing his new fossil

Our new library

  We have been waiting with baited breath for our new library to open and this was the week!  They're still putting the finishing touches on it, but they're open for business. We used to go at least once a week, but in the building phase we just never got to the temporary library as much as we wanted which is silly because our town is not that big.  The library's permanent location though is right downtown by the bank, the post office, and city hall which makes things so much easier!
  The kids were so excited to go!  We jumped right into the kids' room...

Mookie curled up with a book

It has been almost a year and even though the temporary space was well suited for a town our size, all the books were now out of storage, all of the comfy furnishings we so enjoyed were all there from the carpeted "cave" to the little cabin...

Shorty playing with the stuffed animals in the cabin

were all there!  Hooray! The wall between the kids' room and the adult section had a bunch of windows in it.  The kids were thrilled that they could spy on the adults.  They didn't buy it when I told them it was probably so the adults could see what the kids were doing. 
  Even the things that had been around during the interim seemed new...

Bubby checking out the National Geographics

We're planning on taking Daddy tomorrow to show him around.  Yay! :)