One of the things that first struck me when the hubs and I visited Missouri for the first time was incredible amount of parks ~ 2 large parks, 1 water park and a series of smaller community parks.  Not only were there a lot of parks but just about every square inch was covered with families involved in some sort of activity.  I’d never seen anything like it before.  And clean.  The parks were so incredibly clean. Yesterday, I had a chance to go over to the Southside Park in Cape Girardeau and take some pictures.  At the time, some construction and cleaning crews were in the park doing some…