| Friday Oct 10, 6:00 AM EDT | Left our home for the Columbus airport. Yawn. |
| Friday 10:15 AM CDT | Landed in Kansas City. Our
music for the drive from K.C. to Springfield included Joni Mitchell "Court
and Spark", Nirvana "Unplugged" and Sheryl Crow "Tuesday Night Music Club". |
| Friday 12:30 PM | lunch with Mike Tesmer at his home in
Harrisonville. Mike is my best friend from high school (Upper Sandusky, OH). |
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| Friday 4:00 PM | We arrived in Springfield.
Nancy dropped me off at SMSU and I visited Shirley Keck, Barb Helvey, Jerry Yoakum,
Yang Wang, and Jamil Saquer. Nancy drove to Webster and visited Laura Ward and
Sharon Conner. She also briefly visited Frances Smith and Pauline Baldwin.
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| Friday 6:00 PM | "Beer" at Springfield Brewing.
Visited with Yungchen Cheng, Jim Skinner, Les Reid, Cameron Wickham, Eric and Kathy Shade,
Sam Lynch, Shelby and Olga Kilmer, Jeff and Chris Garcia, and Dan Busenberrick. |
| Friday 7:30 PM | Dinner at Springfield Brewing.
From left to right: Pete Sanderson, Jeff Garcia, Chris Garcia, Nancy Lahmers,
Belle Cockrill, Les Reid |  |
| Friday 9:30 PM | Retreated to Anne and Burl
Brown's for the night. |
| Saturday Oct 11, 8:25 AM | Jazzercise with Marion Painter. We also
saw and spoke with Trudy, Edith, Deb, Susan, Pat, Janelle, Polly, Kate, Laura and Brandy. |
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| Saturday 10:00 AM | Went to Belle's house and from there to visit
Bernice Mathews at her apartment in Maranatha Village. Belle is on the right.
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| Saturday 12:00 PM | Lunched with Belle at Mudhouse Cafe. |
| Saturday 1:30 PM | Visited with Frances Smith and Pauline
Baldwin at their home on Catalpa St. Here is Frances with
the quilt she stitched. |  |
| Saturday 2:30 PM | Pat Lockhart joined us at Frances and Pauline's
home. Pat is on the left holding Willie, Pauline is seated, and Frances is
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| Saturday 3:30 PM | We visited the Dickerson Park Zoo. Most of the
animals were mellow, but the Missouri wolves for some reason felt the urge to
howl for us. |  |
| Saturday 4:30 PM | Retreated to Anne and Burl's to
prepare for the evening. |
| Saturday 6:00 PM | Went to Joyce Eiken and Bruce
Adib-Yazdi's home for homemade pear wine and cheese, poolside. |
| Saturday 8:00 PM | Dinner at Gilardi's. We dined on Caesar salad,
crabcakes, Gilardi's pasta (cream sauce and sausage), tuna steak w/ spinach
and mashed potatoes, we turned down the offer of veal shanks, and had either
flourless chocolate tort or ice cream with pecan caramel crust. All washed down
with Monsanto classico chianti. From left to right: Bruce Adib-Yazdi, Joyce
Eiken, Burl Brown, Anne Brown, Pete Sanderson (front), Dana Randall,
Laura Ward, and Nancy Lahmers. |  |
| Saturday 10:30 PM | We returned to Bruce and Joyce's for
a late night swim in their new heated in-ground swimming pool. |
| Saturday 11:59 PM | We retreated to Anne and Burl's
for the night. |
| Sunday Oct 12, 9:30 AM | We visited Kathy Kneedler at her
apartment, then went to Scrambler's for breakfast. |
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| Sunday 11:30 AM | Went downtown to walk through
Jordan
Valley Park and
Founders Park. This was such a delight, since neither were
much beyond the drawing board when we moved away two years ago. Next time
you go to Founders park, see if you can find our brick! |
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| Sunday 1:00 PM | Lunch at Panera Bread with Erin and Julia. |
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| Sunday 3:30 PM | We took a 20 mile bike ride with Anne and Burl
from their place out to Strafford and back. Thanks for letting us borrow
the bikes! Can you see Anne's spiderweb trail? |
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| Sunday 6:00 PM | Back at Anne and Burl's, we lounged
in the hot tub then dined on grilled pork steaks, grilled mixed vegetables
(minus carrots), and baked sweet potatotes. Then we drove into town for
Andy's concretes and other custard delights. By 9:30, we were down for the
count. |
| Monday Oct 13, 8:30 AM | We left for the drive back
to Kansas City. Music for the trip included Los Lobos "Just Another Band
from East L.A." and Indigo Girls "Strange Fire". |
| Monday 11:30 AM | Arrived at 75th Street Brewery in
the rain for a fine lunch. |
| Monday 2:45 PM | We lifted off from Kansas City. |
| Monday 8:00 AM EDT | We arrived home to a hungry
cat! Thanks to all for sharing a slice of your lives with us over this long
weekend trip. |