Missouri Trip

This last weekend my good friend Jo and I took off for Missouri to meet my folks and see the kids for an early Thanksgiving.  We left Thursday morning and went down thru Iowa.  Our first stop was Swedesberg, a darling little community with a Swedish Museum and store.  We had a Swedish volunteer give us the tour and we purchased some Korv, Swedish potato sausage, cheese and Lingonberries.  The Museum is all set up showing life when the immigrants arrived and is a popular destination for Swedes traveling in the U.S.A..  A very fun and interesting spot to stop!!!  We arrived at the Lake late afternoon, great weather.

Friday we got up and the weather was grand almost 72' that day, love it!!!  Went to lunch at J.B. Hooks for great food and superb Bloody Mary's and a fantastic view of Lake Ozark.  Spent the rest of the day dinking around seeing the sites.  Then Saturday we went to our favorite meat market, Tom's and bought all kinds of goodies, they have great jerky and sticks and steaks and on and on!!!!  Then we picked up Tacoma, Ben and Melissa's dog who had surgery, she's hanging in there!!!  And on to Brooks Brother's so Ben could buy a suit, first one and Grandpa helped, had to tie the tie!!!!  Saturday night we had a few people over for my gumbo so we ended the day with a nice meal with good friends!!

Sunday it rained cats and dogs, we went to breakfast at the Cozy and went to visit the neighbors.  After our ham dinner Jo and I went to Brandon's to spend the night in his new digs.  Monday on the road again.  We headed out and again rain and more rain.  By the time we got to Hannibal we decided we had no fire to go to so we headed downtown and hit some wonderful shops and had a fabulous lunch at a great tea room.  Wow we were pleasantly surprised.  We got back to Madison before 7 pm and felt we'd had a fun trip!!!  Jo is the best travel companion one could have and I appreciate her coming along!!!

At the neat quilt shop I got a pattern for a cool tote bag and cupcake pincushions.  So that will be coming up soon.  I really want to make a quilt but the time factor, too much sewing to do right now!!!  Plus after seeing some cute jackets I need to get to Goodwill so I can make my version, more on that later.

Have a great Holiday Season it's here and will be gone before we know it!!!   ENJOY!!!!