It has become tradition for my eldest granddaughter and her husband to hold a joint birthday party for their two daughters in mid-June. Olivia will turn six in mid July and Jordyn reached the ripe old age of three in late May.
Cherry Glen Campground, on Saylorville Lake, is close to Brooke and Nick's--in fact, it was where we camped seven years ago for their wedding festivities, held at the Des Moines Zoo. It has the added advantage of being a Corps of Engineers facility, which means they accept my senior pass for half-price site charges.
Cherry Glen Campground, on Saylorville Lake, is close to Brooke and Nick's--in fact, it was where we camped seven years ago for their wedding festivities, held at the Des Moines Zoo. It has the added advantage of being a Corps of Engineers facility, which means they accept my senior pass for half-price site charges.
However, after I figured up the cost of gas for my trip two weeks ago to northwest Iowa, I decided to whine to my friend Don, whose camper is stored about ten miles from Cherry Glen, to use his instead of Agatha. She will get over it faster than my bank account would recover. So Thursday night we got set up, had a nice steak supper, and drove over to Brooke and Nick's just as Pat and Jill arrived from Texas.
On Friday, Pat, Jill, and Brooke took the girls to Adventureland while Don and I ran some errands after his daily pickle ball rounds. We managed to snag some snazzy outdoor rugs for his camper and picked up a few groceries for supper. We hosted a cookout and it was a real treat for me to have so many family members together: Pat and Jill; Brooke, Nick, and family, and grandson Tuan and his fiance RiannA.
Saturday was party day. In spite of her sociology degree and a job in a bank as a risk assessor, Pat and I feel Brooke missed her calling as an event planner. This year's theme was Mermaids, with fish tails on the cupcakes and shirts for adults (Nick--Mermaid Security, aunts and grandmothers--Mermaid Squad), and a fishtail cake.
We cut our stay at Cherry Glen short by a day due to refrigerator issues. But this afternoon I will be doing a walk for scleroderma awareness with a woman I met two weeks ago. Barbara is the first person I have met with "En Coup Du Sabre"--ECDS--since I was diagnosed seventy years ago. So it has been (and will be) a very full weekend.
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