A Couple of Fine Days

Yesterday we awoke in Joplin, Missouri and did some home maintenance -- vacuuming and dusting.
Oak trees in Joplin



We put on our nicer duds and drove to Sandstone Gardens. Now.. Sandstone Gardens is a sort of home and landscaping design center. The place is huge, like a Paul Bunyan-style mansion. Here's a picture of it from in front. We were far from it at this point, but one has to be far from it to get it all into the frame.



Much of the place was decorated for the holidays, Christmas in particular. Sparkling beauty was everywhere. Of course I found some reflection shots!







We loved these concrete bunnies, which they make here, along with thousands of other concrete creations. We bought a couple of these bunnies.



They have a neat little cafe in the mansion, too, and we enjoyed a sumptious lunch before we left.

Next, we went into town, stopping at the grocery store for some supplies. We took these home (ice cream melts!) and then went back out, finding the mall! We did our walk there.

Dinnertime! Along Rangeline in Joplin, were a plethora of restaurants -- an almost annoying assortment of every sort of eatery you could imagine. We decided to go to Johnny Carino's.

"Is a table OK?" the girl asked.

"We'd rather have a booth." Hey, it's the truth, and she did ask.

So then she told us that there were booths, but that the server assigned to them was not going to be in for 30 more minutes. And then she just stood there looking stupidly at us.

I looked at Michael and said, "Well, there are MANY choices of places to eat," and we left. LOL I can't believe that a hostess for a restaurant could be that stupid.

And we went back to the mall and had a delicious supper at DQ! :)

This morning (Saturday) we had a quick breakfast and then got the rig put into travel mode. Vroom vroom! and we headed off down the road. Today we were on I-44 headed down into Oklahoma. Tonight we're just west of Oklahoma City. We had supper at Denny's, walked around the campground/hotel/restaurant complex, and then settled in.

I discovered that I was not able to get blogger to work, so am hoping to post this on Sunday.