Pere Marquette

On Friday we took GiGi and Grandpa on a tour up the Mississippi river to Pere Marquette state park. After a brief stop in the National Great Rivers Museum, where we watched a great film on the path of Mississippi, we went and had lunch in the Finn Inn.

The Finn Inn is a cross between a fish restaurant and an aquarium. We all had a great time watching Hugh's reaction to the fish.




There was also a fantastic Aligator Snapping Turtle, here he is coming up for air.




After our lovely lunch we headed off for Pere Marquette state park and took a walk up to a nice view point overlooking Swan Lake.



Hugh loved wearing Grandpa's hat.



We then took a few ferry rides across the Illinois river and then the Missouri river and finally home.



The ferry rides were really impressive as we have had lots of rain recently and all the rivers were in flood.