Saturday 4-11-26 St. Francois State Park, Ranger Talk & Relaxing

 

Just hanging out with friends

We had another beautiful day in Missouri. The morning temperature was 51 degrees and the high was 74 degrees. It was a little muggy because of the cloud covering. At 1:00 a little rain shower came through. It only lasted a few minutes. 

I got up at 7:30 and got dressed. For breakfast we had a Big Texas cinnamon roll and shared a shake. We didn't do any hiking today because Larry wanted to give his feet a break. One of his big toes is a little tender. 

Instead we walked around the campground a few times. We did a morning walk for 1.25 around both loops. In the afternoon we walked for 2.5 miles, which was the two loops three times. Larry walked the loops once with me. After dinner I walked around the loops three times for 2.25 miles. By the end of the day I had done 15,500 steps.

I played my Daily Challenges of Solitaire and Mahjong. The event was Event: Two Games Tango of 20 games (10 Klondike and 10 Spider). It took me 2 hours, 9 minutes and 19 seconds, which put me in 20th place in my group. I played Angry Birds Friends and Angry Birds 2.

Larry started a new book and finished it. I finished Northern Borders written by Howard Frank Mosher before going to bed. I asked Larry to choose another book. He decided on another book written by Howard Frank Mosher called A Stranger In The Kingdom. I really enjoy reading Howard Frank Mosher novels because he has his main character and telling the story of his childhood in Vermont. So far I like A Stranger In The Kingdom.

 

Reading is fun

In the evening we walked to the amphitheater to attend the park presentation on Possums. The gentleman, who did the presentation did a very good job talking about possums. He had a table full of different animal hides found in Missouri (possum, skunks (spotted and stripe), foxes (red and gray) and coyote. We learned a lot about the possums. The kids in the audience asked him a lot of questions and he answered them. We really enjoyed the presentation. The presentation started at 7:00 and was over by 7:40. He had about fifty people there.

Showing the different in size of the skunks spotted and stripe (the smaller one is the spotted skunk)

People at the presentation

When we got back to the Minnie we relaxed with a book until it was time to go to bed.