Happy New Year

This has been an unusably warm winter so far. The week before Christmas we had snow. Christmas Day was in the 60's and my sister and I sat on my mom's deck in the warm sunshine. And today, Mid Missouri is under a flash flood watch. We have had thunder & lightning today. Right now there is no rain and the temperature is 60. Made for some awesome fog on the Missouri River. But tomorrow they are calling for sleet and snow! No wonder I am sick but as they say, if you don't like the weather, stick around for a bit. Wishing everyone a fantastic 2020! I hope to take some fantastic photo this year especially in June after a cruise.

Hermann and New Haven camping trip 2017

We have the camper unpacked and we are resting. We had a nice time but unfortunately summer decided to hang on a little longer here. It was close to 100 degrees and muggy instead of warm days and cool evenings. The City of Hermann, has it's own campground, in the park. We thought we would check it out.
Friday, we packed up the camper, dogs and grandson and headed to Hermann, MO. A fun little town on the MO River about an hour away from our home. It was sweltering but we made the best of it setting up. Our friends from Columbia joined us.
Friday evening, we headed to New Haven for the hot air balloon glow. What a gorgeous part of MO. It is wine country as well. There are a lot of wineries in the Hermann area, as well as, on the MO River.
Saturday was so hot, we stayed at the camper, in the shade. We made the best of a beastly hot day. The boys played in the dirt with their toys. Saturday evening we went to dinner and then walked along the river for a bit. My grandson's head hit the pillow that night and was out like a light!
Today we packed up and headed back home minus our pulls on the black and gray water lines. I guess someone admired out pulls and had to have them. Now I have to buy some for our next camping trip, the end of next month.
All in all a nice time but the parking pads were too short. The guys said the bathrooms were gross and the campground got a lot of hwy noise. However, if you like that kind of thing, the trolley picks up and drops off at the campgrounds.

Our Site. Too short for our truck. We had to park on the grass/

Bath house. Husband said it was dirty

Barn on the way to New Haven

Barn in Franklin County 

It was a treat seeing the hot air balloons

Boys being silly

MO River

We had dinner at the Tin Mill

Leaving Hermann this morning. Neat little town!

More snow photos

Just a few more photos of the snow today around the capitol. There's a little snowman in front of the capitol,

The days are getting longer

It might only be a minute or so a day but the days are getting longer. I remember walking out of work on Dec 21st and it was almost dark at 5. Tonight there was a little light left at 5:30 and the temperatures have been in the 40's today. Not too shabby for January! I snapped a couple photos of the Missouri River for a photo contest, I thought I'd share them. I love this time of the day, when the light has yellows, pinks and purples in it.