Archive for September, 2009
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Des Moines Iowa
We have been in Des Moines IA with Curt, Berta’s Uncle, since Sunday eve.
Sunday morning, Paula was in charge of arranging lay persons for the service, and was having troubles doing so. I pointed out, though I had never been a “liturgist” in a Presbyterian service, I’d done 1000s of liturgies, and asked if […]
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Saturday, September 26th, 2009
Prairie du Sac WI, Pella IA, and Muscatine IA
We left Uncle Bob, and went back to Prairie du Sac, staying the night at the park on the WI river, and hoped to see Cousin Bob and his family, but two of them came down with the h1n1 virus. He was able to give us a tour of the cheese factory. […]
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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
Here There Be Dragons
Yesterday, we had a quiet, relaxing day with Uncle Bob, mostly on the patio watching the boats come by. Today we sort of sail off the map. Cousin Bob and Beth will be back from their travels. We were planning on driving down The Mississippi to Muscatine, IA to see Berta’s Cousin […]
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Monday, September 21st, 2009
Land O Lakes WI
We had a wonderful day with Uncle Bob yesterday. We went into town (Land O Lakes WI) for provisions, ate at a wonderful place with Memphis style pulled pork sandwiches, Bob took us on a two hour boar ride on the chain of lakes, and I fixed a fancy spaghetti dinner.
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Sunday, September 20th, 2009
On the WI/MI Border
I am finally able to post. On the 15th, we headed off toward to Prairie du Sac. It turned out it was a lot further than we expected. We had missed a rather substantial line on the Google trip printout at a page turn. So, we went from Coon Rapids MN […]
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
On Our Way Again
When Sleeping Beauty awakens and is functional, we will load Napoleon R Trtl and head to Prairie du Sac to visit Berta’s cousin Bob and his family. It turns out it is only 120 miles away or so, so, if the timing is bad, we will find a pretty place to park Napoleon, and […]
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Monday, September 14th, 2009
More Time With LaRae
We’ve decided to spend another day with LaRae, and not leave for Madison WI until tommorrow. Last night we went to see the stage musical, “Mary Poppins,” and it was great. LaRae took us to her work and showed us the area where she hopes to soon buy a home. Today she […]
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Saturday, September 12th, 2009
Coon Rapids MN
Today and tommorrow we will be visiting our friend (and Michael’s goddmother) LaRae Roder in Coon Rapids MN.
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Thursday, September 10th, 2009
A Day Off
We misunderstood LaRae, and she is not available until tomorrow, so we have a “down day.” After all our traveling, we are looking forword to it, and will be at the pool and hot tub.
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
Savage MN
Yesterdy, we drove almost 400 miles, and spent the night in a campground near Albert Lea MN, Myers Big Island State Park. Today, we drove to Minneapolis, and spent the day at the Mall of the America. We are now in the Town and Country RV Park in Savage MN, where we went […]