This campground is just great if you have kids.  They have a pool, of course, but also a big jumping pad as large as the pool, a floor chess set, a small water park and a wooden sluice where kids can pan for various minerals, like you would pan for gold.  The children here were having a ball.

We like it because the RV spaces are large and there is no road or train noise here.  It is clean and well done.

Here is a view of the Iowa Capitol building.  This is the third capitol city we have visited this week.

 Des Moines is a regular city.  I don't know what I was expecting, but not high rise office buildings and everything you might see in Portland.  They were even setting up for a large Arts Festival starting this weekend.

We spent today exploring the area and saw some amazing things.

Here are two views of the same sculpture in the front of the Botanical Gardens building.  Stunning!

This is the entrance to the Botanical Gardens.

This pagoda sits on the river  and you can see a little of Des Moines in the background.

A few miles outside of Des Moines is the small town of Winterset where John Wayne was born.  They have memorialized his birth home and have a museum dedicated to his life.

Here we are in front of one of the famous Covered Bridges of Madison County.  There were 6 others but we only saw one.  This was also in Winterset.

Rube's Steakhouse is a restaurant where you cook your own steak over a huge grill.  We had kabobs and also toasted our own Texas toast.  Now we are resting in the TrailBayser and will be off again tomorrow.