A Star Wars firefight and skiers jumping over your car are just some of the amazing light displays at East Peoria’s Festival of Lights. The Festival of Lights electric park is made up of floats that begin in the Parade of Lights prior to Thanksgiving each year. Being floats allows them to be huge displays that you drive by. What You Will See Space Opera…
I spent some of my childhood in the Kansas City area and what I enjoyed the most when I was young was seeing the Plaza lights. It is a 90 year old tradition that spans a 15-block area with Christmas lights over the entire Country Club Plaza. The lights come on in a special ceremony at each year’s Thanksgiving. Where We Stay Our favorite place…
Up the Mississippi River to a bounty of colors and spectacular Illinois River views was what was in store for us going to Pere Marquette State Park.
Meeting a celebrity chef, catching “throwed rolls” and seeing Superman are some of what we did in Paducah!
Drive through a herd of buffalo, take a ferry ride across the Ohio River to a huge cave in a rock or see a long chain once used to stop Union boats going down the Mississippi during the Civil War are some of the many activities you can do in the Paducah area.
Metropolis In Metropolis Illinois, Superman is real. In 1972 DC Comics declared the town “Home of Superman.” Here you can see the Super Museum, stand in front of a larger than life statue of Superman and even see the Daily Planet. Superman Statue You can stand in front of a larger-than-life Superman and take a pose just like him with or without your Superman costume….
Paducah, Kentucky is home to Top Chef’s Sara Bradley’s Freight House restaurant which will be checking out on our Kentucky road trip. Paducah is about halfway between St. Louis and Nashville and has a vibrant art scene along with a historic restored brick downtown, amazing river wall murals and restaurants that serve Southern cuisine. You can even find moonshine without going into the backwoods. Freight…
Superheroes, comic books and Andrew learning the art millinery were the many fun activities we did at fall festivals. On fall weekends in St. Louis I look for activities to do with the kid while the weather is decent and before the winter chill sets in. Luckily we live in a fairly large metro area so I can usually find a few festivals to checkout….
Laura Ingalls Wilder’s House, a Missouri Stonehenge and a walk in the woods were the stops on the way back from Branson to St. Louis. Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Home and Museum The farm is where Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote her Little House on the Prairie books is located just outside of Mansfield, Mo. on Highway 60. As the story goes, Laura, Almanzo, and Rose…
A national Civil War battlefield, a frog-shaped rock, and a devil’s elbow are some of what can be seen on the way from St. Louis to Branson! Our family vacation this year was Branson, Mo. It is about a four-hour drive. In long rides like this, I usually look for places to stop along the way to break up the trip on the way there…
