Saturday, June 21, 2008

Southeast Iowa, Jewelry and Family

Holy Cow, Batman! We are a month since our last post, and need to apologize to anyone who may have noticed (Mary Jo!!!)...

We have been buzzing around Iowa, seeing old friends, some young friends, and our related families in Iowa. We are just finishing up a couple of weeks in the Washington, IA area, visiting the Heather (daughter) and Pedro Lujano family.

We were able to see Pedro's jewelry as he prepared for an art fair in Burlington, and his pieces at a gallery in Iowa City. Beautiful fused dichroic glass pendants and earrings. Pedro's business is called Malinalli Arts.

We had fun playing games with Nayra and Rio, our 2 beautiful grandkids, as well as having them overnite a few times in our 5th wheel. They really loved that. Finally, this morning we had the wonderful pleasure of watching a swim meet in Fairfield. I don't know if any of you have been through this or not, but we were there for 3+ hours, and the kids were racing for about 10 minutes....they sure swim better than I ever did!

We also saw some of the flooded areas around here, and it must have been terrible at the peak of the river levels. Our hearts go out to those affected.

Tomorrow we head for SE Minnesota to an ROD Park in Spring Grove. Ellen has a check up at the Mayo next week. I haven't downloaded and sorted the photos on our digital camera, so when I get caught up, I will add some images to these entries!

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