June 2nd - Back in Missouri

We arrived back home in Missouri about 2:30 this afternoon. It is good to be out of the car.

We left Wednesday morning and our first night out we stayed at the West Baden Springs Hotel in French Lick, IN. If you have never been there it should be on your "bucket list". We went there around 2005 and toured the place after Bill Cook had poured millions into it, just to stop the deterioration and spruce up the exterior and lobby. In 2007 we went back for an overnight stay soon after it re-opened as a hotel. It was awesome then, and still is. Our recent overnight stay was our Christmas present from Kelsey & Andy, our granddaughter and grand son-in-law. Thank you K&A, we sure enjoyed the gift.
If interested you can read about the hotel at http://www.frenchlick.com/hotels/westBaden/

Thursday it was up to Indianapolis and an overnight stay with Doug & Anthony. We went to La Parada for supper and I had my favorite, a chimichanga. It was great. The only problem with it was that it was so large I could only eat half of it.

Friday we went up to Michigan and spent the day and night with my Mom. Kathy had to go to the Moose lodge in Fremont, IN for fish Friday night. The fish was good and so was the lemon ice cream cone we had for dessert at the soft serve ice cream parlor in Fremont.

Saturday we spent the morning at Mom's and then headed down to Auntie V's (Kathy's niece and sister run/own the place). We had "prime rib burgers". Oh so good. Then it was on to Hamilton Lake to stay overnight at "the cottage" with Nate, Judy (one of Kathy's sisters), Emily & Kendahl (N&J's daughters). We had a nice visit with and a took a very enjoyable "pontoon boat" cruise around the lake at dusk.

Sunday we went to church in Edon, OH and stayed for Elliott's (one of Kathy's nephews) "going away party". Elliott is leaving for a 6 month stay in the Congo. While there he will be doing maintenance on the planes used my Kenya's missionary pilots.

Sunday night was another overnight stay with Doug and Anthony and then back to Missouri today.

We got to do a lot of visiting while gone, and see some folks we hadn't see in years at Eliot's party.

I hope everyone had as enjoyable weekend as we did. May God bless you and yours.

PS. I'm going to do a "double blog post" today so that I can also tell about the "feather factory" we ran across in California, MO.