Des Moines River in Athens

 

Colin and I went riding again today. On the motorcycle. (lest anyone had the silly thought that we might be riding bicycles, or horses). It really should have been Warren's turn to go riding, but he was too busy helping Mom paint the edges of the swimming pool.

We rode to Athens. I always thought Athens was in Greece, but as it turns out, its in Missouri, just across the Des Moines River near Farmington, Iowa. We couldn't find the Parthenon, but we did find a cool civil war historic site, complete with a small museum, gift shop, and people in period costumes. We'll have to go back there again and hunt for that dadgum Parthenon...... :-)

The picture above is of the Des Moines river, taken from an old restored civil war era home that we wandered through.