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Cape Girardeau is a town on the Mississipi River in southeast Missouri. It has a colorful history and has preserved it in a unique way, by painting huge detailed murals depicting scenes from the area’s past on the floodwall built to keep the town from …
Last week my younger son attended a one-day engineering camp at OSU in Stillwater, Oklahoma. I hung out on campus all day and took lots of pictures of the gardens and flower beds. After a day of breathing the “O State ozone”, I’m ready to …
Back in January, we took a day to visit the Florida Aquarium in Tampa because we are all about aquariums…seriously, we go to every one we possibly can, including the ones here in Oklahoma, which are obviously few and far between… Our visit coincided with a …
While in Florida we visited the Clearwater Marine Aquarium. If you have small children, you have probably seen this place in the Dolphin Tales movies. It was all new to us. This is a wildlife rehabilitation center that rescues and releases marine animals. There are …
In early January we went on a family vacation in Florida. One of the highlights of our visit was a walking tour to see just a few of the murals in downtown St. Petersburg. A good friend of mine from high school lives …
Last December, as our Christmas present to each other, my husband and I took a weekend trip to Colonial Williamsburg. We stayed at the Parkside Williamsburg Resort, which is just a few miles from downtown Williamsburg. We had visited in April 2009, and I had always wanted …