That's Where The Tall Corn Grows!!!

Iowa - not somewhere a lot of people go for vacation but Glenn and I make it a point every year to get back at least once to see our families!  We flew out late afternoon on Thursday and for once I DON'T HAVE AN AIRPORT STORY!!!  Can you believe it?  It was smooth sailing up to Denver, parking the car, taking the shuttle to the airport and climbing aboard the plane!!  I LOVE this short flight - about 1 1/2 hours!

It's always a shock to get off the plane in Omaha into their small airport - it's so nice to just walk without having to dodge people and get where you're going in a matter of minutes!  We rented a car or I should say a jeep liberty and headed up the interstate to Patty and Leonard's place!

It was talk, talk, talk before we headed to bed that first night and I slept like a log!!

Friday morning it was coffee time!!  Patty had bought an espresso maker so we compared notes on how we make it and soon I was sipping a wonderful cup of mocha!!  It was pretty enough that I had to take a picture!!

Believe it or not, the Iowa temps were quite unusually cool when we were there and we sat on Patty's deck in the sun, talking the morning away!!  I had to hear about their Hawaii trip and see all the pictures they had taken!!

That evening the 4 of us plus Jim and Brenda headed out for dinner and then went back to Patty's to discuss our upcoming trip in Feb. - it's always a hard decision to decide where to go but we THINK we have it down to 2 places!  Time will tell............
Saturday we headed over to Neal's place (Glenn's son) for lunch - we had brought elk hamburger and fish from Mexico to grill and we had a great time visiting with everybody!!  It was fun to see Nedelle who is Todd's little girl - she's in the 3rd grade this year!

And we got to meet Chance, Neal and Jen's little boy who is a year old!  He is one cutie!!

Here's Todd, Glenn and Neal before we headed back to Patty's!

After we arrived back in Soldier, Patty and I headed down to her daughter Cheri's store where we had fun trying on lots of clothes!  What a cute store it is and of course I couldn't leave without buying a couple of tops and a new pair of bling flip flops!

Leonard grilled up some delicious steaks that night for dinner and Jim and Brenda stopped back by too - Jim brought a whole sack full of drink mix and limes and proceeded to make caboritas which was a drink he had in Mexico when we went to Cabo - isn't it a pretty color?  Reminds me of the ocean!

And before we left Patty's on Sunday morning, of course I had to have a picture of the two of us!!  It's always hard to leave her house as we have so much fun but the good news is that I'll see her again in a couple of months when we take a sisters trip!
Well good ole' blogger is not allowing any posts below this last picture so I'll have to finish my blog!
We headed down to Glenn's mom next - she already had some company and by noon his 3 sisters had arrived loaded down with food!  YUM!!  I ate and ate and still left plenty of room for a piece of fresh peach crisp (made with Colorado peaches!)!  I LOVE peach crisp and hadn't made any yet this year so enjoyed eating it.  In fact, Deanna left the rest of it there so I could enjoy another piece before bedtime and one in the morning!
All too soon it was time to head out by noon on Monday - a short trip but we did get to see all of the family and that's what counts!!