We are currently at our home in Odessa, Washington. HOW DID YOU WIND UP THERE you ask. Well, its a sad story.
We left O'Fallon, after a wonderful visit with Mike, Bev, Sarah and Natasha and headed to Kansas City to visit with Grandson David for a few hours on Monday. We had a wonderful visit with him. He has grown into such a nice young man (he is 23) and we are so proud of him. On Tuesday we headed to Lake of the Ozarks to spend some time with our friends, Carl and Ruby SKidmore, but first we stopped in Clinton, MO to have lunch with one of Al's cousins. We has a good, but very short visit with them. After leaving them, and in the middle of no where in Missouri our cell phone rings and we are informed that Al's brother, Gene has died. Gene is 4 years older than Al and has been in poor health for a few years. We are very saddened by losing him, however, we know that he is in a much better place and is at peace. At any rate, we continued to the Skidmores for the night.
So now, we have to scramble to get flights to Spokane. We finally, after a long search book flights from St. Louis to Spokane, via Phoenix. Yes, Phoenix. IT was the most DIRECT flight we could get! We could have gone from St. Louis to Chicago to Denver to Seattle to Spokane....uh, no! That was one of our options! At any rate, I cancelled our return flight with American Airlines to Phoenix on Friday and rebooked with America West/US Airway for flight on Thursday to Spokane. We arrived home last night to NO WATER (have a couple of broken pipes, currently waiting for plumber to arrive) and NO PHONE. GRRRR! But we are home. It is kinda' like camping! And no RV in sight to stay in....so we head out to Jerry and Ardis's and spend the night. What a trip! Thank goodness they had the room for us or we would have wound up in the Odessa Motel, which would have been okay. At any rate, we are here until next Tuesday, when we will fly back to Phoenix and go home to Tucson for a few days. Gene's funeral is tomorrow. Jennifer is due in today. Sad way for family to get together, but like most large, spread out families, we get together for funerals and weddings!
While at Mike and Bev's, I learned a few things from our precious great grand daughter, Natasha, age 6. I learned that it is hard to catch the ice cream man. We heard him twice, and twice we scrambled out the door, only to see his tail lights going down the street. Poor Natasha was crushed both times! I also learned what popsicle juice is! Do you know? It is a Natasha recipe....melt a popsicle, add water and an ice cube....presto, popsicle juice (it calms an upset 6 year old when she has missed the ice cream man). ANd yes, I drank it....after all, what are great grandma's for? (and yes, it was icky.) And I have to add here, Sarah, is doing a wonderful job raising Natasha. Sarah has recently moved out into her own apartment and is doing wonderful. We are so very proud of her. We also met her boyfriend, Chris and like him very much. He is very nice, shy, and very kind to both Sarah and Natasha.
Both of us were amazed at how lush and green Missouri is. It was absolutely beautiful. I love the little towns, and some of their names, i.e., "TIGHTWAD, MO." We laughed for miles over that one! Not as good as BOOGER HOLLER, but close. We were sorry we didn't get to stay at the lake for a few days...AL was looking forward to mushroom hunting and fishing for croppie. Oh well...another time perhaps.
It is cold here! I am glad I left a few clothes here....as I was not prepared to come north just yet! The weather in Missouri was warm with no humidity and we really enjoyed it, along with a few great thunder storms. Bev took me to a great restaurant for lunch in the little town of Kimswick, MO called the Blue Owl. Boy, was that ever good. The town was really cute as well....we will have to go back there. I told Al I would like to spend a month in Missouri some time in the RV, just so we can poke around the state. There is a lot I would like to see.
Well, the plumber should be here shortly, so I will cut this off for now. We hope this finds you all happy and healthy. Until next time, we are....
THE WROAMIN' WRASPIRS, minus all animals.
PS...we got to play with Simon last night....he is such a great dog.
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