Made it into Columbia Missouri early in the afternoon yesterday. It was a nice sunny day and the temperature rose into the high 60's finally, so there was no real hurry to get here early even though it was only a couple of hours from Hermann to here.

    A very nice RV campground here on the northeast side of the city. Got the trailer all set up and then ate a bit of a late lunch. I needed to go mail a package to Colorado so the next thing was to find a local post office. Ended up in the main one downtown somehow, but that was okay because it allowed me to run by the site where the dance would be this weekend as the college campus it is on, was only a couple of blocks aways. Afterwards it was time for a short walk and little cooking for the evening. Otherwise it was a nice quiet evening of reading and napping.

    Today was a beautiful sunny day. The temperature certainly got into the low to mid 70's so it was a marvelous time to go out for a nice bike ride. The weekend dance started this evening at 8:00 so I was out of the trailer and on my way at a little after 7:00. It's only about 7 miles from here so less than 15 mins to get there from here.

   The band 'Contrazz' out of N. Carolina and Seth Tepher as the caller kept things hoppin' all evening. Once again the 3+ hours of dancing seemed to slip by in no time at all. Was surprised to see so many people that I recognised at this dance, I had really thought there would be a lot fewer people at this dance since I have not done a lot of dancing in this area of the country. But there were a couple of dozen faces that I recognized and quite a few that I actually knew the name of. So it was a lot of fun to dance with some of them this evening, but also a lot of fun to meet and dance with some new people also. Right now though it is time for a nice cup of hot tea and a couple of aspirin. Then a couple chapters in my book and then some good sleep as it all starts again come tomorrow.