Iowa Bound

Time to make our annual trip to Iowa!  We usually fly but Glenn had decided that it would be fun to drive this year AND spend a nite on the road so we could take our time!

We headed out early Sunday afternoon and took a 2 lane highway into Kansas - the drive was nice although there's not a lot of exciting things to see along the way!  I brought lots of snacks to get us through the afternoon along with some good music !  But also realized as we were driving that I forgot the phone charger...................

After a quick dinner and gas fill up at Colby, KS., we headed out again - but it took a lot longer than Glenn expected - he was hoping to stay in some little town along the way - I informed him that most of the LITTLE towns did not even have motels!!  So he set his sights on McCook, NE and it was after 9:30 before we got in that night!

The motel was nice and served breakfast - and luckily there was a Walmart in the town so we could stop and get a phone charger!!  First order of the day - coffee to go!!

We arrived in Soldier around 4:00 and Patty and Leonard were our hosts for the week!!  We had a great dinner and spent our time catching up!

Tuesday we spent with Glenn's mom Lolly who had moved into the town of Onawa - we took a trip back out to the farm and gosh there is a lot of stuff still out there.  The place she moved into is very small so there's lots of sorting and decisions to be made about all the furniture and antiques in the house!

I found out that evening that our 45th Class Reunion did NOT happen as no one from out of state could attend in July!!  So Patty got on the phone and put together a mini reunion with some of my friends who live locally!  We had a great time catching up with each other!!

We stopped at Neal's place one night to give Maggie and Chance their birthday presents!

I do believe these two little ones have the exact same smile!!

Chance had to put on his cowboy hat and boots to show us!

The weather was extremely cooperative while we were there - it did get warm a couple of the days but the humidity wasn't bad at all!  Patty and Leonard have such a nice house and it was a real treat to know each evening we came back to their house, that it would be nice and relaxing!!