Thursday, September 28 - Touring Downtown
Alton
The weather has
broken, the free nights are used up (buy 3, get 3 free), so today is the last
day we will be in Alton. We celebrated with scrambles for breakfast at
the marina. Bobbie and Bill joined us and got the last two pieces of the
breakfast casserole. It got thumbs up from them, too.
The seven of us
called the casino shuttle - it was a shorter walk to town from there than from
the marina. We had considered eating their buffet lunch which was half
price on Thursday, but they wouldn’t let Alex in. He’s 20, but you have
to be 21 to even go in the building. We took a selfie. In the foyer and
walked to town.
Alton was not what
you would call a pretty town, but it did have some interesting buildings, and a
lot of hills. We shopped at a thrift shop, a pawn shop, a craft store
that was going out of business, and ate lunch at a pie shop.
The sign out front
said “General Store” but this was really a caddy no ice cream store. The
wood inside was beautiful. Gil found out it came from the Exposition in
St. Louis.
Bill and Bobbie
heard about a meat store, so we all went to investigate. And all went
home with meat.
We all met at the
usual place to discuss plans for tomorrow. Five boats are leaving, Danny
was elected to get up early to call the lock to make sure there was no wait.
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