Lovely Day

Well, I got pretty close to my required dose of Old Town. The guys were really patient about letting me shop, shop, shop. We had lunch at Little Winery of St. Charles on Main St. and split three appetizers and a lovely bottle of wine...one of our favorites, a vignole. I roamed in and out of two many fun shops to name but two are always a MUST: Rock Paper Scissors has to be one of my all time favorite stops. The owner is great and she stocks stamps and amazing specitaly papers. I bought ribbons and paper mache objects and fun little books to assemble along with some papers, of course.

And the next required stop was the Flower Peddler. I don't think E and I have ever left this place empty handed. And yesterday was just another one of those visits to the shop. Everywhere you look, there are take-me-home goodies from ceramics to flower arrangements to endless wonders. We ended up with a couple of little new oranments for Lucille, my retro Christmas tree and a hanging witch that kicks her feet, gives off the witch laugh and swings back and forth with lit eyes at the touch. Steve kindly offered to ship things back for us...bless his heart!

We ended up at Tony's, a new place that opened up at one end of Main. We sat out on the top deck and a few at a time, many of our old crowd from our high school showed up. It was such fun getting to see them all again. It had been almost two years since we last made it 'home'.

Today we are off to the wineries and a few from last night are to join us on our rounds. We'll end up at Nick and Kay's place out at Lake Sherwood where we will be staying for the rest of our visit. It looks like Monday or Tuesday we'll be heading to Rocheport for the day. I've never been to this river town and the view from the winery there is suppose to be breathtaking.

These are just a few pictures from yesterday...I took almost 60 just of Main and all the fun places there.

I'm being called for breakfast. Gotta run...love to all.