Fun Saturday

We left here this morning at 8:00 on our way to Des Moines.  It was sprinkling here, but it was raining big time almost all the way to Des Moines!  I mean the kind of rain where you have your wipers going at the fastest speed and your car feels like it could hydroplane at any time!  Then by the time we got to Des Moines it was back to sprinkling again!  Just lucky I guess!

We went to Amanda's downtown by Principal Park first and had a wonderful visit with her, her mom and dad, her sister and got hugs from her two beautiful little girls!  Plus we got to have a piece of mayonnaise cake that Valerie had made and it was wonderful!  Everything she makes is great - must be the Italian in her!  Thank you, Burgetts, for the wonderful hospitality!

Our second stop was in Clive to Randy's brother's place to see all of the Richards family!!  We didn't get to see all of them, because two of Randy's brothers weren't there...but we saw a bunch of the family!  Randy was back from Arizona with his two kids, Kim and her two daughters were there from Alabama, as well as their parents who are also from Alabama.  I don't believe I've seen the Richards clan since Randy's "starter wedding" (his words, not mine!) back in about 1988 or 89.  I've seen Randy at Cyclone events a couple of times and I talk to him every once in a while.  So we had a wonderful visit!  We were there for about 2 hours but it went by very quickly.

We couldn't leave town without eating, so we dropped back east to the 5 & Diner in Pleasant Hill and then came home (without rain this time).  It was a wonderful day with old friends!

More later...