Bless her little heart ....
I've got some time now to make an update (or two) today. Bottom line is Marceline is Main Street USA and the Walt Disney Hometown Museum is so good it should be at the Disney Resorts around the world for more people to see the connections between Walt, Marceline, and the parks.
The best way to go through the day is chronologically I guess. Way more to share than in Hannibal (which I still enjoyed).
Teamubr led the caravan to Marceline this morning.
Marceline is only 2 miles off the highway and right at a 30 minute drive for us this morning.
The ad-hoc plan was to do the house, tree, and barn first then head to the museum after it opened at 10am (we were coming in at about 945am). However, the lead car blew past the house
and led us to the museum so we had a few minutes to kill. The museum is in the old Santa Fe Railroad Depot.
The E. P. Ripley Park is next to the museum and we headed over to the park when the train tracks on the other side of the depot were LIT UP by a train coming north:
and then followed immediately by one going south (parallel set of tracks).
I will say once that at least 10 trains went by in the two hours we were there.
Ripley was the President of the Santa Fe Railroad in the mid 1950s during the building of
Disneyland and the dedication of the park (which was rr property) and an old steam locomotive that is still there. There is a steam loco at DL named for Ripley. It's a nice park with a fountain lake, two bandstands, trees and picnic tables, the steam loco, and its latest attraction.
Some nice lazy susan flowers in the park.
More later tonight. Have to get ready to head over to the campground to kibitz and check on Elsa.
Bama Ed