Springfield, Missouri

We woke up this morning to race horses being exercised.  We enjoyed watching the different horses as they ran around the track.  This is 7:00 a.m.

Besides exercising the horses, some of them were put into the starting gates.  Races are run here through November.

There is a small casino located under the grand stand.  It isn't even open 24 hours a day like most of the casinos we have seen owned by Native Americans.

We left our site at 9:30 and crossed the stateline around  11:15  We were, at that point, only an hour from the KOA.  I called them to see if we could check in early and were given permission to do so.

I was happy to see that the leaves were still on the trees and looking very pretty.

We arrived at Springfield KOA at 12:30 p.m.  We took our time setting up.  We will be here four nights, leaving Sunday morning.  The campground is very beautiful because it is filled with tall oak trees which are turning and falling.

Site #69.

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With lots of tall oak trees, come lots of leaves on the ground.  "Buzz Cut" has spent most of the day taking care of those leaves.

I am not sure what the temperature is but even in the sunshine, it is cool.  Carol tried to sit outside for a while but it got too cold.  We have heard that it may get down to 18 degrees Friday night.  We are so glad these cold temperatures have come at the end of our trip.   These last three days should be relaxing.  We will not be hiking.  We will be attending a show each evening in Branson but days are not planned so who knows what we will do.