Memories

I think today may become a day of a lot of typing and not so many pictures.  To put it in a nutshell, it was everything we had hoped and dreamt I would be.  I have only one regret and that is that I didn't take pictures of us with our Kooman van den dries cousins.  Dora, Eric, Nico, Jannie, Peter, Magreet and Dora's daughters.  That's a lot of people to not commemorate.  The evening of Dora's birthday party was SO full of conversation that we completely forgot.  Nico, the fire inspector (I don't know if that is his right title) but your dad spoke the whole night with him about his adventures.  While we were in the car travelling there, we had said how Mark would love a tshirt from the department.  Jerry called him from the car enroute and Nico delivered.  He brought a lot of swag. He said had we called him with more notice he would have brought more.  What he brought was more than we had ever expected.  We razzed Jerry that had he called earlier we would have had a lot more.  Well Jerry said, had you TOLD me earlier, I would have CALLED him earlier.  It was very funny!  But seriously we never imagined he would bring as much stuff as he did, so sorry Mark, you're not getting it all!

We think we'll get a lot of sleep on the way home.  We are travelling in such style, thank you Superior Propane.  Who would think these hicks from the sticks would be able to enjoy such great benefits.

So that's it for now.  Most of you will have made it to the end of this rant, Curt, well he probably won't BUT......we think he's been very busy dealing with crisis at Midway, so for that we truly thank him.