Hannibal

Elephants. Lechter. Mark Twain. Smith. Those were the family associations, in that order. They should have been thinking Samuel Clemens because we went to Missouri today. It's one of the places on the day trip list and they were having their fall street festival this weekend.

Unless you are a huge fan of Mark Twain or have never seen a house from the mid 19th century, you could probably skip this trip. The boyhood house and museum turned out to be about 8 buildings. We skipped Huck's house since we assumed it looked just like the houses of Tom and Becky. The kids have never read Twain and were unimpressed.

The street fair had lots of pork. And we encountered more food on a stick.

Where did this phenomenon come from? What ever happened to finger food?

So, it's nice to know that we've been there, but it's sort of like visiting Springfield and wanting to find something besides Lincoln.