Halloween October 31, 2008

John and Kathy, Debbie and Gary Palcher

I have contacted several friends that I have gone to college with and one or two that I went to high school with. I have to remember that they are ALL teachers and are all still working. I tried to get a hold of Janice who was a college roommate as well as the maid of honor in my first wedding. She lives in Cameron, MO., and I finally got a hold of her dad, because I couldn't get ah old of her and she never called me back....so, guess she didn't care to see me. Anyway, I did get a hold of Debbie and her husband and they did meet us for dinner. Debbie teaches art at a private Catholic school for 4 yr olds through 8th grade. Gary is in the food business. Debbie and I were in the same dorm and also were sorority sisters. She was from Wichita and at the time I lived in Mulvane, KS., which is a suburb of Wichita. It was good to see her...after you talk awhile it is truly like nothing has changed. Yes, we are older and yes, our kids are pretty much grown, but we are still the same people. We had dinner at an excellent restaurant called J Alexanders.

Tomorrow we will go to Pittsburg, KS where I went to college. We will be seeing Vicki and Don

Van Becelaere. More about them tomorrow.

Thursday Oct 30, 2008

Got to KC around 1:00. We are staying at the same park we did last spring, Worlds of Fun. The park is really nice and there is hardly no one here. We had lunch at the casino here...and gambled again my same 20.00. This time I lost it all. We set us some meetings with some friends of mine from college for tomorrow night an also on Saturday night when we are in Joplin, Mo. Joplin is right over the border from Pittsburg, KS where I went to college.
We ate dinner at a place called Shrouds. It is known for their pan fried chicken. It was served family style and it was too much food for the two of us.
We're just watching TV now and chilling.

On the road again. Oct. 29, 2008

The Shay's and the Dawson's at dinner.

Here we are, on the road again. We spent our first night in Des Moines. Made it safely with no problems and stayed in a RV park in Altoona, Ia. I believe the casino out here is called Grand Meadow. We went there and ate lunch and I gambled with 20.00. Left with 20.00 too, so didn't do too bad.
We met Chris, Jen and the kids at Red River Bottom Brewery downtown in Des Moines for dinner. It was a brew house, but the food was pretty decent. After dinner we went to Chris and Jen's house to see all the updates they have done. It looked really nice. Got home around 10 or so and shut 'er down.
Got up at 4:30 am to no heat or power....we plugged into 30 amp and needed 50 am to run the electric. Wasn't the coaches fault...it was ours!!! Re set everything and were good and warm til we got up.
Heading for KC today.