Wednesday(6/20)...Well, we got off to an early morning start from Rapid City, hit a big Thunderstorm just inside Iowa about 6 hours into our trip, and saw a gigantic bolt of lightning just south of us in a cornfield...AWESOME!!! And we finally made it to my brother's house in Springfield, Mo around 9:30pm CT. A long and exhausting day, but then we stayed up til about 11:30 talking and being entertained for a while by my 2 yr old niece, Emma! What a hoot she is now that she is talking. I had not seen her since November, and my family much longer than that. So good to be with my brother's family.
Thursday(6/21) Today was a blast. We slept in because of being so tired from the trip. Had a nice sit down breakfast with everyone, which never happens when we are back home. Just kind of lounged around for a while, and went to lunch at Fazzolis, (a restaraunt we do not have in Rapid City, SD...or anywhere close for that matter!) Baked spaghetti with meatballs and unlimited garlic breadsticks---Yummo! Then we headed to the Springfield Zoo (more specifically Dickerson Park Zoo) It was surprisingly good! For the size of city that Springfield is, they have a real nice zoo. Then we came back home and rested for a while and went bowling. The kids and Amy have been bowling quite a bit this summer with the kids bowl free program back in Rapid, so they were all doing well. My sister in law was a very good bowler back in the day(...and still is). No wonder my brother says when they go bowling he sets goals, and none of those goals is to have a better score than Susan. Wow! You really are a good bowler Susan. She scored a 499 in three games. IMPRESSIVE! Three of us had the best games we have ever bowled. Amy and I both got turkeys on the 10th frames of our second game, hers right after I finished getting mine. We were both amazed, and it was my first turkey ever!
After all that we came home and had another fantastic meal. I stayed up and watched a movie.
A GREAT day all in all...but our camera is broken, and the silicon cover to my CPAP mask is ripped, so not a great day for technology for me, and a rough night of sleep. We shall see what today brings!
Thanks for reading and God's blessings to you!
