Hannibal - Mark Twain's Hometown

The most amazing thing I did on this trip was paint Tom Sawyer's famous board fence and go on a riverboat dinner cruise on the mighty Mississippi.

I have been wanting to do that since I was 8!

Thanks Helenchen!

This is the little cute cottage, right downtown, that we stayed in.

Hannibal is a small village, situated along the Mississippi River in Missouri...

...it's where Sam Clemens, alias Mark Twain, spent his childhood years, got in trouble, painted fences (or had other boys do it for him), had a crush on Becky Thatcher (real life Laura Hawkins) and hung out with Huckleberry Finn (Tom Blankenship). It's where he skipped school and went fishing instead...

...and we got to visit his boyhood home...

...Huckleberry Finn's boyhood home before...

...having dinner on the riverboat...