We headed off on Friday to spend the weekend in Des Moines (our "home" prior to Gainesville). We stopped along the way and picked up some apples and of course did a little geocaching! We had some neat finds along the interstate...stopped at the Guardian Angel Chapel outside of Mason City, IA and I found a really cool "great hide" coin in one of the caches. It was really great on our drive to see all of the windmills that are being built across the farm land in southern MN and northern IA...go alternative energy!!
We arrived at our great friend, Jared's house around dinner time on Friday. Jared is a regular "Martha Stewart"! :-) We felt so welcome while we were there and can't thank him enough for his hospitality!
We headed out to do some geocaching on Saturday...note our find in one of several cemeteries that we visited that day. (Congrats Jared on find number 600!) We also went out to one of our favorite places in Des Moines; Gray's Lake park which has an awesome view of downtown. Mmmm, yummy milkshakes for lunch at the Drake diner and a tour of our old stomping grounds. We were blessed to have dinner that night with friends Jared, Renee, Ruffus, and the absolutely adorable Gabriella.
Sunday we headed to Knoxville, Iowa to church to visit Pastor John and wouldn't you know it we got there and he was on vacation. (We did however get to visit with him on Monday when we came back to crash his office hours. Pastor John was such an integral part of our time in Des Moines and it was so good to catch up with a great person that we haven't seen in 6.5 years.) Sunday afternoon we got to visit with the pharmacist we use to work with Chuck and his lovely wife Chris. Chuck was a fantastic mentor and our "adopted" dad (he bailed all of us out more than once, I have no idea what we would've done without him)!
We had a great weekend!!
No comments:
Post a Comment