Hello all! Yes, another trip to Iowa. But this time it wasn't Pella! Brian and I headed off to Lone Tree to help Brian's aunt and uncle celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary. Brian's aunt has been fighting malignant melanoma for 6 years now, but it is spreading to her brain so we wanted to spend some time with them before it changes her too much. After a couple of brain surgeries she is doing fairly well, but she has troubles getting her thoughts out a lot of the time. I have always adored Aunt Marla, and am grateful to have been able to spend some time with her-especially with a special celebration.
We headed down Friday night, and met for dinner at the local casino. Then it was back to the house for some cards and wine-a usual tradition with this family. We headed off to bed before midnight- not a usual tradition. Usually it's much later, but we are all getting older:) Saturday morning we met Brian's cousins for an Easter egg hunt before heading off to Davenport to meet up with a college friend of mine, Shelby. We hadn't been in contact for many years. I guess FB does come in handy sometimes. We had a great time catching up, and meeting her family. By late afternoon we had to head back and meet the rest of the family for dinner at 3 Samurai. We sat at one of those tables where they cook in front of you. The kids loved it! Then it was back to the house for...yep, cards and wine! I actually skipped the wine, but did learn to play dirty rummy. I did really well the first two hands, but then got beat-severely. Then on Sunday we got up early because of the weather. We left Lone Tree by 7:30am, but hit the storm at Cedar Falls and continued until we got to I35. Glad we left when we did because I35 was closed later in the day North of Story City. All I could think was, "It's APRIL!!!" Can the snow PLEASE go away...
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