After a beautiful Sunday Mass at St Genevieve church in downtown St Genevieve (church is from 1840s… all white and gold, with statues and stained glass. very French with many tombs all in French…. This is the center of the Louisiana purchase… These guys were all French and this was their colony!!!! Until we bought it!) We drove north waving goodbye to our lovely Inn and the little carriage house that we shared with many annivarsary celebrators before us…. and headed north. Crossed "the River" at Hannibal (been there, done that about 2 years ago) and drove into Quincy. The welcome center is a castle a guy built for himself (you guessed it, in the 1840s) facing the Mississippi! Friends of the Castle man the welcome center 7 days a week. We found our hotel with ease a block from the river and have settled in for showers and a brisk clean up. We will go to the American Legion where they are having a Country and Western dance and then go to an Italian restaurant on Maine street (streets are all named after states) if the restaurant is open (it being Sunday and all it might be closed). It wouldn’t hurt to miss a meal as we’ve been eating every meal that happens and well, I feel a little full. Sip some wine and think of us and we will think of you. God bless you!
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