We were invited to a wedding today that was about 4 hours away and with the fog lifting this morning, we were relieved that the travel shouldn’t be too bad. There’s been a warm front coming through and with the ground cold and the air warm – well that just makes trouble. But like I said, this morning it wasn’t too bad. After I got a card made and we packed some overnight bags just in case it got foggy again or if we got too tired to drive home, we were off. 
The drive was pretty uneventful and we ended up getting to the town way too early to go the church yet. And just as we were driving through the town, Daryl mentioned that this is the town that Andy Williams was born in. In the same second that he said that I looked at him thinking – Score! we can go and check that out before the Mass. And also at that same time I could see him kind of scrunching his face and kinda looking like he wish that he might have not wanted to really say that out loud. Too late. But with the town being pretty small in size, this shouldn’t be too hard to find. And just as I was going to Google the address on my phone, the house was literally right in front of our car. Daryl parked the car and down the hill we went to get a picture. It was really windy and I’m sure glad that he’s such a good sport!
Andy Williams was born in Wall Lake, Iowa
But even with this little detour we were still too early. So we drove around the streets to find where the reception was going to be at and then ended up downtown. The town that we were in was Wall Lake Iowa and has around 800 – 900 people living there. It’s really a cool town and not only the houses, but even the Main Street looks like something that you could have easily seen back in the 50’s. Yup, my kind of a town! But there was also some nice improvements to make it a great stopping point if you’re driving by. After the wedding and reception we ended up coming home last night and it felt good to be able to sleep in a little bit. As I was thinking on the about the wedding and kind of reliving how the flowers looked and how fun it was to see some of our friends that we haven’t seen for awhile, I was also thinking that who would have thought that in this little sleepy farm town that someone as famous as Andy Williams was born there. I guess it really doesn’t matter where you get your start from. And for Andy Williams it was in this little house in Wall Lake Iowa.