We stopped at the Phillips 66 station at the I-70 exit to get gas before we got on to I-70 East. We paid $3.059 a gallon for premium grade. It was 10:00 when we got on I-70 and it had warmed up to 57°.
Not too long after we got on I-70 the fog quickly changed to rain, so it really cut down on my photo taking today.
We crossed the Missouri River about 10:40.
A couple of minutes later before we crossed the Mississippi River, I did get a photo of the Gateway Arch through the fog and rain.
Then we crossed the Mississippi River
and entered Illinois.
We stopped in Mount Vernon for lunch at a Denny's. Fortunately it had stopped raining when we got to
Denny's and held off until we finished lunch and then fed Tinker and walked him.
I called my cousin Frances when we left Denny's and told her were were about 30 minutes away. We arrived at her house about 2:00 and it had started to rain again.
We visited until the rain quit for a while and went out to get some of our things out of the trailer. Then we took a break while it rained some more and then went back out to the trailer and got the rest of our things we need for our stay here.
Then for dinner Jack and Frances took us out to dinner at Applebee's. Frances and Jack had steak dinners, Mike had the chicken fingers dinner and I had the cedar grilled chicken - all very good. It had really started raining hard while we were having dinner and it was storming when we left Applebee's and we all got wet in varying degrees.
On our way back to Frances and Jack's house, the rain had come down so much and so fast that the water couldn't drain off of the streets and we drove through some flooded streets. The rain is supposed to be out of here tomorrow.
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