Missouri Vacation Day 3

On the third day of our trip Nathan was feeling good and ready to get out and have some fun! The rain held off until that evening so we got in everything we wanted to do in Hannibal. Hannibal is such a great little town!

The first thing we did was to tour all of the homes on the Mark Twain house tour. Here are the kids in the fireplace at Huck's house.


We also got to take a sightseeing cruise on the Mark Twain Riverboat. It was great and...

we were invited into the Captain's quarters and the kids got to help steer the ship into port!

After the river cruise we ate at a restaurant on the river. Claire was absolutely thrilled that she got to color on the table! Evidently, she'd never been at a restaurant that let her do that before!

After lunch we headed over to the Mark Twain Cave. We toured the cave. It was great.

Very neat to be in the actual cave that Mark Twain played in as a kid and the one he wrote about in Tom Sawyer. I plan to do a separate post about the cave so the book club kids that read the book can see just what Twain was talking about.

And what mom doesn't love to take pictures of her kids with their heads sticking out of little holes making them look like other characters? I know I do!

I bought a family pass for the cave which included a little panning for gems for each of the kids.

And also a candle dipping for each one of them...

My husband and I finished the tour with a wine tasting!

Then, we headed over to the Mark Twain museum to finish our tour. This is part of the home tour, but we saved it until later in the day when it was suppose to be raining. That's just what happened, too, so we were glad we waited! The museum is really nice!

We ended the day at a fabulous little restaurant called The Brick Oven. Best pizza I've ever had! And I tried a great wine there too. My only regret is that I didn't buy a bottle. Now, I have to hunt it down!

Well, that's it for day 3. The next day we headed to Springfield Illinois to see all of the Lincoln stuff.

To read about the first 2 days of our trip you can click the link that says "missouri vacation" at the end of this post. It should pull up the other posts.