Iowa Bound/Sisters Day

It was time for our annual trip to Iowa with a long list of people to see including a Sisters Day and a wedding reception to attend!!

For once I didn't have to set the alarm for 3:00am - this time it was 4:45am!!  And my good friend Joleen had driven in the day before to "house sit" our home while it's on the market!  She is one special friend to do that for us and we had 2 showings while we were gone!

Caribou Coffee was the top priority when we reached the Denver airport!  Security was easy since we were TSA approved and the flight was uneventful - my kind of trip!!  We arrived on time in Omaha and sister Teri was waiting for us as she had arrived about 1/2 hour earlier - got our car rental and we were off for Soldier!

It's always great to see Patty and Leonard - and that evening Jim and Brenda arrived for our annual farm meeting and a great steak dinner!  We spent the evening visiting and hitting the sack early as it had already been a long day!

Friday was designated "Sisters Day".  Since Teri and I were both coming back for our nephews' wedding reception, we all decided not to do another trip this year and just do a couple of special things together.  We headed over by Logan to see the Museum of Religious Arts - a very unique large building that housed hundreds of religious artifacts!!

Here is the front of the small chapel.

 A very unique Lord's Supper hanging.

 We really enjoyed the display of paintings given to the museum by "Akiane" the 9 year old who painted the portrait of Christ that was featured in the movie "Heaven Is For Real".  Her paintings are beautiful!

After the museum we walked up the hill to the crosses - it was a gorgeous day outside!

 I love this picture of the cross with the beautiful clouds in the background - gorgeous!

 After a stop in Logan for a delicious lunch, we headed to the lavender farm! 

 Unfortunately the farm lost about 4000 plants this last winter so they didn't have a lot in bloom - but we could sure smell the lavender when we ran our hands over the leaves!  The owner did a slide show for us and explained how the farm was started - very interesting.

 We walked up to this cute sitting area and enjoyed just visiting and enjoying the beautiful day!

 Back inside we enjoyed lavender cookies and lemonade with lavender - delicious!  We enjoyed shopping in their gift shop and then sitting in the purple chairs around this fairy garden!  What a great ending to a perfect day!!

More Iowa happenings to come..................