Monday, October 26, 2009

October 26, 2009. Day 99 Jefferson City MO.






On October 26th, we left Gayle’s house in O’Fallen, Missouri, and drove a couple of hours to Jefferson City, Missouri, to tour the capitol. We were fortunate enough to park the RV and Jeep on the street outside the capitol. This capitol was built in the traditional style like most of the capitols that we've seen so far. There's not very much in the way of “grounds” around it because almost everything outside is parking, not lawns. It does sit on a hill overlooking the Missouri River so that looked cool. Inside we took a self guided tour. We entered up a big, impressive, wide stair case made of marble. There were five floors and we walked around all of them looking into as many rooms as you could. Two floors were nothing but offices. It has a beautiful big dome so the Rotunda from the inside was impressive. We could not go into the Senate Room or its Gallery because they were locked but we were able to get into the Gallery of the House Chambers. When we entered the Gallery you could hear music playing from the speakers overhead. It was “Wild Thing” by Tone Loc. That made us all laugh because it was the oddest thing to hear while in a House Chamber. Kathleen started to dance to it a little and two men at the desks down below saw her and started to laugh too. I don’t think they expected anyone to come in. Until then we had been a little bored with this capitol but the music gave it some character that we liked. While we were walking around we could smell people’s lunches from the offices and we all thought we smelled barbeque. We could not get over that smell so when we left we just had to go get some for lunch. We found a barbeque restaurant not far away called Bandanas. It was very good and satisfied our cravings. We left and then drove a couple of hours north toward Des Moines Iowa and stayed at Long Branch State Park in Macon, Missouri. The area is beautiful with rolling hills and lots of trees. At dusk we saw a beautiful sunset out our front window that reminded us of Albuquerque. It had been a long but good day.

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