US - Onondaga Cave State Park in MO

Onondaga Cave

We have been on several cave tours, but Onondaga Cave is the first we have seen that has these unique Lily Pad formations.

 

We drove around in the park.

US - Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park in MO

Black River

Shut-Ins Trail is 2.25 mile loop.

We just walked part of this trail and turned back, because it was a very hot day and we had to park at the visitor center, which was a 1 mile walk to the shut-ins. The parking near the shut-ins was full with crowds relaxing on Memorial Day weekend.

US - Elephant Rocks State Park in MO

Elephant Rocks State Park has a beautiful nice Braille Trail, it's 1 mile loop.

According to the sign when a quarry worker became a master stone cutter, he would carve his name and the date. 

Most are from around 1880.

Steve says these are either kissing rocks or the wife rock is trying to push the husband rock off the cliff.

I say they are kissing rocks.

I go through this narrow passage.

Someone didn't dare to come through.

The sign called this is Fat Man's Squeeze.

The water is 40 feet deep.

Engine House Ruins Trail - 0.4 mile.

Staged reading play ~ TEA

I am glad that I took a big step going to the audition, and the director Christopher LaBanca accepted me to be part of the show. This was really a big deal for me.

"Solid Lines Productions is proud to present a staged reading of Velina Hasu Houston's play, TEA! There will only be one performance, and it will be with our new partner: The Stage at KDHX! ADMISSION IS FREE.

From Dramatists' Play Service, Inc.: "Four women come together to clean the house of a fifth after her tragic suicide upsets the balance of life in their small Japanese immigrant community in the middle of the Kansas heartland. The spirit of the dead woman returns as a ghostly ringmaster to force the women to come to terms with the disquieting tension of their lives and find common ground so that she can escape from the limbo between life and death, and move on to the next world in peace—and indeed carve a pathway for their future passage. Set in Junction City, Kansas, 1968; and netherworlds."

Directed by Executive Director Christopher LaBanca, and featuring Vicky Chen, Kristina Le, Sara Lin, SinE Tan, and Fox Smith, with Sean Hector reading stage directions, TEA promises to be an illuminating and haunting night of theater.

Content may be disturbing to some audience members."

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Showtime.

I enjoyed the chance to work with them, it was so much fun.

I had a wonderful experience. I appreciate it.

St Louis downtown.

Beautiful church.

Night view.