We got an early start this morning because Kyle’s flight was at 10:00 and we wanted to get there in plenty of time to check in. Usually the mornings are so busy at the airport and we’re guessing that it will be really busy at 10. Because he’s going to be on an airplane for so long and it’s probably going to be messing his internal clock up pretty good, he wants to always stay up the night before to try to get in sync with the different time zones. So when it came to this morning, at 4:00 here he was all ready to go and wide awake. Oh to be a kid again… After Daryl got done with the chores, off we went to Minneapolis. It’s only a 3 hour drive, and with the roads really good we didn’t have any issues. Which is always good right? When we got to the airport our suspicion was right about all the people there. Holy Smokes! We knew that you can weigh your bags before you get into line and we all figured that this was a good thing to do. Kyle did weigh them at home, but it was just a double check. And good thing he did because he even had a couple of pounds in each one to spare. (Which makes me thinking do I really weigh even MORE than our scale says at home??) So he unloaded some books from his backpack to get his checked luggage to 50 lbs. Next thing was to get in the long checked bag line. It wasn’t as bad as it looked and it moved pretty fast. Oh by the way -if you’re checking a second bag the cost went up. It’s now $100 for your second bag! Ouch right?!! But his two bags are what he’s planning on using for the next 12 months so honestly 100 pounds isn’t too bad. I’m not sure how much of it was books though and he even kept some at home for now. Soon it was time to say our Good Bye’s and it’s always such a yucky thing.
Kyle looks pretty tired before he boarded the plane today. Wishing him safe travels.
I’ve gotten better at this saying the Good Byes at airports and we even laughed when we left the airport today because we even recognized some of the TSA workers. I beggggeeed Daryl to do something totally irrational and we could just hop on a plane and go away for a couple of days. You know we were at the airport already. But no such luck and it didn’t take too long and we were back home again.
With it only in the early afternoon, I had a lot that I wanted to get done yet. I was able to get some pictures made for some posters for our stew supper tomorrow night and I got all my matted pictures done. Yup, all 8 of them. But the funny thing is that I never took a picture of my finished work which is kind of odd don’t you think? I guess you’ll just have to believe me that they turned out pretty good. I’m also hoping that others who come to the supper will think the same. I also ran into the hardware store and picked up a bridal shower gift that I needed for tomorrow morning. That was kind of hard. I had no idea what to get, but finally I found an insulated pan carrier with a pan inside. She should like it and I think it would come in pretty handy. Next to pick up some groceries quick for a couple of pans of bars that I need, some easels from the funeral home (I plan on making some posters for our church) and the next stop was to see how our Chef was doing on the stew. Everything was cool there so I went home to unload my groceries and grab the 8 matted pictures and head back to church. I’m can just about imagine that our neighbors were wondering what in the world I was doing driving back and forth so many times. I spent some time at the church getting things ready for tomorrow and back home I went to get cleaned up for tonight’s fish fry.
Whew! And guess where we went tonight? We went to Elma, Iowa – BACKWOODZ Steakhouse & Lanes. Yup, a bowling alley was on the agenda tonight for supper. I think that’s so funny! But the food was really good and while you ate, you could watch people bowl. We never did go bowling but we did do a road trip and spent part of the night playing pool and bags. Fun!!
And the picture of the day is the Mendota Bridge in Minnesota. Here are some facts on it: When it was built in 1924-1926 it was the longest continuous concrete arch bridge in the world, it has 13 arches, and it’s the final bridge over the Minnesota River before the Minnesota flows into the Mississippi River. What I know about it is that if you’re trying to find your way home from the airport or need to go the airport, all you have to do is to head to the bridge! 