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Every Tuesday at 6:42 a.m. and 8:42 a.m., Brenda Newbern provides a rundown of some of the events happening in the Cape Girardeau Area. Brenda is the Executive Director of the Cape Girardeau Convention and Visitors Bureau.To find out about more events happening in the area, check out visitcape.com/events.Local support for this program comes from Bobby & Elizabeth Gray of Gray & Co - Concierge Real Estate Team.

Fun Things to Do in Cape on a Rainy Day

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April is almost here and so are rainy springtime days! Hopefully we’ll get some nice May flowers out of this equation, but until then, here are some spots with fun things to do until the sun is shining.

Get hands on with nature inside the Cape Girardeau Conservation Nature Center.  Kiddos can trace animal prints with crayons, play in the puppet theatre, peer at the wildlife that calls the nature center home, crawl through an oversize beaver dam and spot birds and squirrels from an indoor wildlife viewing station. Exhibits are for all ages, and this facility is 100% free!

With antique shops, specialty stores and boutiques, see what’s new on the shelves with an afternoon of shopping.  So many new shops have opened up and have so many unique things to offer. A rainy afternoon spent inside a museum is all kinds of cozy; Crisp Museum highlights Native American culture, riverboats and the history of Southeast Missouri while Discovery Playhouse, a Children’s Museum, has two floors of hands on entertainment for kids infants - young teens.

Watch the rain come down with a good book and a steaming cup of tea of coffee at one of Cape Girardeau’s unique coffee shops in downtown Cape Girardeau. Add some color to a gray day at an art gallery - the Arts Council’s gallery, the gallery adjacent to Crisp Museum inside the River Campus and the art gallery at Catapult Creative House all feature fresh works from local artists.

Stay nice and dry inside your car and embark on a driving tour - at VisitCape.com, you can download the Civil War Driving tour or the Gone Girl Driving tour, and the African American History Driving tour is on it’s way this spring.

Get the full scoop on all of these events and more at VisitCape.com/Events.

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