Iowa #2

 Was it hot in Iowa - OH MY!!!  The heat wasn't actually that bad but the humidity was!  I did manage to walk early a couple of days but the one day when I opened the door and felt the air, I decided it was a no go - just too humid!

Thursday morning we picked up Brenda and went to coffee in Mapleton - always GREAT coffee and we talked and talked!  We had fresh peach fizzies that afternoon from Colorado peaches - YUM!

We headed out to the South Church - always one of my favorite spots to go!  They have a new sign in the front and I love reading the history here!  Of course I always enjoy seeing that old pump organ that I used to play on Sunday mornings!  MEMORIES!

Late morning the 3 sisters ventured over to Tekamah to go to Masters' Hand - we had done this before and always enjoyed it so it was a pleasure to go again!  Your lunch includes a drink, appetizer, entree and dessert!  I started with strawberry lemonade which was excellent - next up was herbed cottage cheese (or you could have soup) and now I have a new way to eat cottage cheese - my lunch was chicken salad while the other two had quiche!  The homemade rolls were excellent and I loved the pretty butter setting on a rose petal!  The salad was plentiful with the dressing in a little swan dish!  Both of our main dishes were great!

We're all smiles in this picture as we're about to eat!

Dessert was hard to pick!  Patty had bread pudding with ice cream, Teri had triple chocolate cake and I had peach crisp with ice cream - all wonderful!

We were SO full driving back home!  Jim and Brenda came a little later and we headed out to the farm - Teri hadn't seen the old house gone yet and it IS a shock to not see it there any more!  Across the road is Jim's garden - cantaloupe, watermelons and pumpkins!  The pumpkins are doing the best and Jim's going to have plenty for his grandkids - I liked this huge white one!

That evening we took 2 cars over to Woodbine to eat at Good Fellas, always a great place to eat!  We split shrimp dinners because we were all so full and even opted to NOT take dessert to go since we still had the cherry cobbler and special bakery items that Cheri had brought up !

Glenn and I said our goodbyes to Jim and Brenda and I got packed up that evening!  5:45 came early the next morning as we loaded up to head out about 6:30 with a box of Iowa tomatoes - YUM!  What a fun and busy time in Iowa this year - thanks to Patty and Leonard for hosting!

And then it was hugs and time to say goodbye!!

We had hoped to make better time going home since construction wasn't going on (it was Saturday) but of course some of the construction zones were still down to one lane - things were going great till we got outside of Limon and Glenn said one of the tires was going down - fast!  We limped into the edge of Limon and there was a huge spot by a car wash so we pulled in there - Glenn finally got the spare tire on in 91 degree heat and said it must have been a nail as it was a perfect hole - we were going to find a tire shop but Glenn knew there was a NAPA there and he said he could patch the good tire and get it blown up to put back on.  Luckily NAPA was only 1/2 mile away and when we pulled in, they actually had a repair shop right there and the bay was open!  15 minutes later the guy had fixed the tire for $20 and put it back on and we were back on the road!  A rain storm had just moved through and it was 59 degrees when we pulled into home - now that felt great!!