They brought this awesome guy, a gift from friends Chris and Katie:
And since Carl was due for a new company car and our old Honda Accord has definitely seen better days...they brought us a sweet new ride. We're very excited, but we will miss the Honda--it's been involved in some exciting adventures in our lives.
Of course, we had some great food, including at our favorite gas station/eating establishment.
We also checked out the Steamboat Arabia Museum. A steamboat sank in the Missouri River in 1856, and when the river changed course, the steamboat stayed where it was. In the late 1980s, the steamboat was excavated from a cornfield. The coolest thing about it was that the steamboat was full of cargo when it sank, almost all of which was preserved. So there are shelves full of dishes...
...and also some odder items, like these jars of pickles. Pretty neat.
Below is the skeleton of the only casualty from the sinking: a mule that no one bothered to untie when all the people were evacuating. Sad! But also cool!
It rained the entire weekend, and then just as Carl and Cindy were getting ready to leave, the sun came out. But we had fun with them, despite the lousy weather!
In other news...see how our garden grows!
2 comments:
Wow! This post was chock full of exciting stuff! I've got other memories of your old car as well. Remember when you were first learning to drive and you drove over the curb and the tire went flat and we had to flag some guy down to help with the lug nuts because they were too tight? Yeah, me too.
Excellent documentary of your car. I wish we had done the same with each car that went bye bye. I am jealous of your tiny garden. In the midst of making plans for our spring summer garden we foun our sprinkler system leaky and have spent several assorted weekends fixing up parts of it. Too late for a summer garden now in Phoenix. :( At least we have fall.
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