So far, our trip has been great! We left our house at 5 am Saturday morning and caught a flight out of IAH to O’Hare. Our flight from O’Hare to Dubuque almost got cancelled because the stewardess got sick, but luckily, some one-stepped in.
Erin did great on the plane. Flying into Dubuque was fun. It’s a Podunk airport – one runway. Its one of those airports when you get ready to land you still see no sign of an airport and begin to wonder if it’s a strip mowed in the grass buffer between fields. But Dubuque is moving up in the world, the runway was paved and they actually have a luggage carousel.
My parents met us and dropped off a car and dad directed us on the back roads so we didn’t have to “fight” the “heavy” city traffic of Dubuque. And it was a good choice. The way home took us past several quaint churches, and old monastery that is still running and a seminary nestled in the hills far from anything. It was a beautiful drive and made us realize how much we miss this place.
Sunday Max graduated from high school. The commencement ceremony was so long and boring, makes me happy I did not attend my own college graduation. But it was cool to see him finally walk across the stage and start his next stage of life. Leave it to Max to place a remote controlled fart machine under the stage at graduation. Every time the principal stood up to speak they triggered it. The sound only carried to the third row but those three rows were laughing so hard, it was noticed.
Sunday night we drove to Des Moines to see Renshaws. Jared’s grandpa got out of the hospital after two months so we stopped by to see them. He’s doing well. We have just been hanging with family. Erin is getting spoiled and is loving every minute of it. Today we are heading to the zoo and tomorrow back to NE Iowa.
Till Next Time…
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