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Tuesday, April 7, 2020

April Fools.....

 Sign on the clubhouse door...
April showers down here water the March flowers...
we don't have to wait until May!
Pickleball at 8:30 a.m. every morning
Dennis, Wendy, Diane, and Bob "distancing"
Wendy and I go to the pool early to beat the crowd. 
We are lucky that our pb courts and pool are still open!
Bunny cake is a tradition on the funny farm :-)
The Easter Bunny came to our house in Texas.
Nancy, Wendy, and I pot-lucked for Easter....
no one goes away hungry.
Cecelia, Claire, and Lydia....
Why are all the eggs in one basket????
Trina, Caiden, Ari, Jett, Tom, and Anni
dressed up for their Easter photo.
RJ and Julia "social distancing"
Andrew, Matthew, Grace, and Luke...
nice touch with the Easter Mass on the TV
The gang's all here for Easter--Zoomed in :-)
Heading home:  The man from Enterprise
brought the van we rented over to our park
 
Temp the day we packed up the van
April 23rd
Inside the van: we look like the Beverly Hillbillies. 
On the 24th we headed north on 77 to US 35
north of San Antonio. This highway actually runs
all the way from Laredo, Texas, to Minneapolis!
 First stop: Gainesville, Texas (596 miles)
First Gold Star Memorial we have seen...
Names of the deceased.....
 are etched in stone
Just five minutes from Gainesville
Highway 35 crosses the state for 235 miles.
Almost right on the border 
is the famous WinStar Casino
Ohio might be the Mother of Presidents, 
but Oklahoma is the Mother of Casinos.
Kansas was not as "corn-y" as I thought.
I wish we could have stopped to visit 
my high school friends who live in Lawrence
and Basehor, KS, but we were definitely
"social distancing" here!  236 miles later, we were in
Highway 35  runs just over 100 miles here,
but we did see lots of these pretty trees along the way.
Just into Iowa, 
we saw Leon where some of our friends from Texas live. 
We couldn't visit Tom, Trina, and the kids in Cedar Rapids, 
so we kept going.  That day we drove 671 miles 
and stopped in West Des Moines overnight.
On Sunday, the 26th, Minnesota welcomed us
and we made it to Buffalo where Corey and Ana live.
Corey and Bob transferred our "stuff"
to our the pickup that we left there after Christmas...
and it was really packed!
 We brought them a loon, but Bob sanitized first!
 We had a great visit with Corey, Claire,
Cecelia, Ana, and Lydia,
 but had to keep our distance....
 So they got "virtual hugs"

On Monday we were back to our
Home Sweet Farm :-)