Main Street Galena

We slept in and had breakfast at the breakfast buffet at the hotel. It was a beautiful morning so we sat out on the back deck and watched the Buick Rivera's line up for the car show. There were some sharp looking cars. The hotel had a beautiful park like back area. After checking out we went downtown and walked up and down Main Street Galena. We stopped in one store and the boys each got a Galena t-shirt. On the way back we stopped in an ice-cream shoppe and they had cones. Because it was mid-week the town wasn't very crowded. After Galena we headed south and drove through the Mississippi Palisades State Park. The upper drive was closed due to the storms. The park and campground was really empty. We kept driving and stopped in Port Byron where he had lunch right next to the 'mighty' Mississippi. We saw some young girls laying on the railroad tracks along the river. The Port Byron municipal building was right across the street and we looked up Joanna's friend Linda Alguire who lives in Port Byron. She called her up and we went and visited for a little over an hour. Afterwards we drove into the Quad cities and found a Holiday Inn by the Moline Airport. We had the hotel pool to ourselves again. After swimming they went online at the hotel computer. We walked across the street to a McDonald's for dinner. The hotel restaurant was closed due to earlier flooding. We asked to stay another night but a bunch of little leaguers were coming to town for a tournament and the hotel was booked.