Here are the pictures of Mater and Hoppies “dock” – somebody lives on the houseboat on the left side of the dock

    

We arrived early enough that we were able to walk into Kimmswick for some quick shopping and lunch at the famed Blue Owl Restaurant. Its Levee High apple pie has been featured on the Today show, the Food Network, the Travel Channel, and the Oprah magazine where she declared the one topped with caramel and pecans one of her favorite things. Unfortunately by the time we got there, there was no apple pie left, so we’ll never know if it’s really that great. The other pies were quite tasty though!

On our walk back we saw some very interesting things – a bridge that was in use from 1874-1928 in a different location and then moved here. It is now a pedestrian bridge and has a very unusual floor.

And then there were these structures

We also passed by the Fred and Mabel Ruth Anheuser Memorial Riding Arena. If you look very carefully, you can see chairs set up for a wedding. Next door to the riding arena was an indoor riding arena used for equine assisted therapy.

     

Later, after recovering from the sugar rush followed by sugar coma from the pies at Blue Owl, Rich did his nightly check of engine fluids, etc. He then asked me if I was hungry, because he had caught a fish. It turned out that when he was cleaning out the starboard engine strainer there was a very small minnow-sized fish in it!