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American Queen, bucket list, cruise, depression era glass, extraordinary, milk glass, mother, photo challenge, reamer, river boat, shopping, tea cup, Tiffany Glass, tour, travel with mom
Last year my mother dragged (really, almost kicking and screaming-dragged) me on a cruise. Not a sit in the sun and see amazing new tropical countries kind of cruise, but a boat full of really old people kind of cruise. I had the BEST time!! We were celebrating her 80th birthday and this was on her bucket list. I made all sorts of new friends and discovered she makes a great wing-woman.
We went up the Mississippi River from St Louis to St Paul on the American Queen, a real honest-to-goodness paddlewheel. The food was good and the wine was mediocre (good thing I had brought a good stash of my own). We went through something like 26 locks, saw bald eagles, a church with a huge collection of Tiffany windows, and explored Hannibal, MO, home of Mark Twain. One of the last days of the trip, Mother wasn’t feeling so hot, so I left her with a cup of tea and I trekked out on my own. I didn’t want to go too far, so I just went on one of the short excursions to an antique mall.
Boy-oh-boy was I in hog heaven. Room after room after room of pyrex, milk glass, and depression glass… I could have spent every dime I had and then some. I restrained myself and limited myself to just a few things. I got both a milk glass and a green glass reamer and these darling milk glass tea cups. One of these days I will go back with a uhaul and shop like mad.
I could go on and on about all we saw and did that week, but they have a brochure for that. I will say the evening entertainment on the boat was outstanding. I’m just delighted to have gone and seen and experienced what I did. It was truly an extraordinary adventure.
In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “(Extra)ordinary.”