Touring the Quad Cities on Sat.

It was just a 10 mile trip to the marina at Bettendorf from Le Claire.  It was cloudy and chilly but we were tied to the dock at the Isle of Capri Casino marina after 2 hours travel time. The marina rates are only $15.00 Sunday - Thursday and $25 on Friday & Sat. so we will stay here until after the Mississippi Valley Blues Festival.  We will head south once again on July 4th. We have access to lots of public transportation options here.  There are several buses, the shuttle to the other casino runs every 30 minutes to downtown Davenport, and the Channel Cat Water Taxi is $6.00 each all day. The Channel Cat stops twice on the Iowa side & twice on the Illinios side.  We rode the whole 4 stop trip Sat. morning.

Our first stop & most interesting was the East Village of Davenport.

One of the old buildings in the East Village.

http://villageofeastdavenport.com/

The "Claim House", the first house west of the Mississippi, was built in 1832 and moved to its current location at 1329 College Avenue.  The oldest house on its original site is also the only log frame house.  Built in 1848of 12" and 15" bark covered logs on a limestone foundation, this earliest of split levels was built directly ove a spring at 1919 11th Street and therefore had running water. Bob & I walked around a couple block & saw some of the points of interest.  Nice.

Lynn, at Freddie's Fritters Dog Bakery & Pet Boutique in the East Village was very helpful and offered us yummy homemade cookies.

Wicket squints from the sun & her eyes water.

So we bought a visor from Lynn, at Freddie's in the East Village.  Wicket wasn't too happy to wear it but it does keep her from squinting and she keeps it on. It works!

 The Channel Cat route took us around Arsenal Island and onto the John Deere Commons in Moline, IL.  It started raining so we ducked in for ice cream at Lagomarcino's and then a ride on the Channel Cat to the north end of Moline and back to Isle of Capri in Bettendorf.