Because of much barge traffic in the Illinois River, there can be hours of wait time to lock through. Pleasure boating is NOT a value item in this part of the river and there are few places to secure your boat. When one boat finds a secure mooring, other boaters will raft up. It's a nice way to meet people and helps to pass the time. This is a couple from Restless Spirit. We've been with this couple and one other on Sue Sea Q4 for almost a week now -- at various ports. The six of us when to probably the worse movie any of us had ever seen yesterday. It was a movie entitled Balls of Fury -- a comedy (they said) about a ping pong player! Of course that's merely our opinion. Then we found a nice Thai restaurant and shared a great meal together. We came back to the docks and sat out under the stars, in lawn chairs, until late that night! All in all, this waiting at locks thing is not half bad.
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