Lunch at Saffron Bistro with Callie, Travis and Angie

Bob takes a picture of our hubcap so we can match it.

Monday, May 3, dawns sunny and warm with a high of 79. Early this morning I download the gift opening photos from yesterday, clear my Memory Sticks and backup the hard drive. After breakfast we re-clean the kitchen floor after the great beer explosion late last night. This morning we bring the kitchen slide-out in and find a few pieces of glass and a wet area.

At 11:45 we head one quarter mile down Kingshighway to Saffron Bistro. We ate at this place a few years back with Travis a couple of time when it was still at the old location. We love the unique Asian cuisine served here. We arrive first and get a table for four. Travis and Callie come and say Angie is joining us so we move to a round table next to us.

Callie has Saffron Bread, an appetizer, and lets us try some. It is a great French loaf-like bread with chicken salad stuffed between layers served with cucumber sauce. It is heaven. She has that and a salad and has to leave to get back to work at ten minutes to one before our entrees come. I'm glad she could join us for a bit. It was fun to chat about the weekend and the wedding. She takes her entree with her and tells me tomorrow that she got a break in the afternoon to eat it.

I have Green Curry Seafood (scallops, shrimp and calamari.) Bob has Red Curry Shrimp. It was all great. It was so nice of them all to meet us on their first day back to work after the big bash. Bob and I say farewell and get a St. Louis Post-Dispatch at Rhode's next door and head home.

I pack up four loads of laundry. While I'm at the laundry room bob puts the axle caps and wheel hubs back on the RV. While he's at it he gets the rust off the lug nuts. It's a gorgeous day; the best since we got to Cape. I try to sit outside the laundry room on a park bench and read but a wasp must live under the bench and won't leave me alone. So I go inside and sit on a folding chair in the hot laundry. I'm done by 3:30.

I spend until 6:30 organizing wedding pictures, sending some photos via email and posting some on Facebook. Then we watch House and Castle. In between Dometic calls for a survey regarding our A/C, thermostat and furnace in the RV. It was news to me that the A/C is Dometic. I thought only the microwave and refrigerator were Dometic.

Patti, Bob's cousin, calls. She saw my Facebook pictures of the wedding. It is nice to chat. They were just in Sedalia at a Missouri Blacksmith convention. We hit the sack after Jay Leno's Headlines.

Movin' On to Cape Girardeau, MO

Wednesday, April 28, I'm up at 7:30. It is sunny and chilly at 49 degrees. We pack up quickly and leave at 10:08. It is warmer already today as winds are calm out of the south. We head north on I-55 for 30 minutes before we have to take the roller coaster ride around the west side of Memphis through some wild road construction. We got the thrill of a loop de loop curly-cue ramp on I-55, crossed the Mississippi River and found the correct lane to go north on I-55. But not before our hearts jumped in our throats a few time. Whew!

The map lied about a rest area in Arkansas on I-55. We pass our campground in Arkansas across the River from Memphis where we stayed in The Beauty-it's now a KOA. The Welcome Center at the Missouri border is closed too. They promise a new one in 20 miles that turns out to be 45 more miles. So we go 140 miles of our 202-mile trip before we have a break and we need one. We eat our PBJs and grapes at the rest area and head north for 60 more miles to exit 99 and Cape Camping & RV Park, 1900 N. Kingshighway, Cape Girardeau, MO 63701, Cape Girardeau County (573) 332-8888, N37* 2.022, W89* 34.656.

A workcamper guy out front admires our RV. We were here in the Lakota five or six years ago. I'll have to look up the year. The RV Park was only a few months old at that time. It is much nicer now with grass instead of mud. All of the sites and facilities are completed and we have Wi-Fi at all of the sites. We pay $204.07/week ($15.07 tax!) We are in Site A-9, 2 or 3 sites down from our first time here in the same row.

We jockey the RV so the steps are on gravel (someone left us a nice door mat!) and the utilities all reach (we think.) Last time we had to re-hitch as the electric cord missed by two inches (we were rookies then.) This time we didn't realize we have cable TV at this park and the box is way on the end. Bob got rid of his faulty 50-foot cable so we only have 10 feet and missed by 4 inches. We'll get a new longer cable at Wal-Mart later.

By 2:45 we are set up. We head south to exit 96 and enjoy the salad bar at Ruby Tuesday's. Then we stop at Wal-Mart for essentials and a 12-foot cable. Good old Wal-Mart. Back home Bob hooks it up. We put the bikes in the garage, I hang up my decor and we crash. It's 6:02 p.m. and 68 degrees with 25% humidity. The high was 77 and the low was 49. Let the wedding festivities begin!