Another morning begins with Aurelia playing; this morning she had to play by herself though because new BFF Anya had to head to church early to clean up with her mom and dad.
Beth decided to start her blog post and here's the scene after 5 hours...
Had a good time at Kristen & Jon's church. We came on a great day and had a potluck, score! Today being our last day in Des Moines meant for a sad goodbye with Aunty Kristen.
I think Anya got bored of my conversation with her. We were discussing the Syriac Orthodox church liturgy and she seemed really interested but I looked over at her and...
Bah! I've got the rest of my life to bore her. We did wake her up to take a nice family photo.
Hawaii Gangstas! We said goodbye after lunch and headed to our next destination, Princeton Illinois. Essentially a town half-way between Des Moines and Grand Rapids with a hotel for $50 for the night. Can't complain. About an hour and a half outside of Des Moines we noticed these lovely clouds in the distance...
Beautiful! Then 5 minutes later they looked like this...
Apparently we were headed into a huge thunderstorm system. We passed a blown over semi (I kid you not) about 15 minutes down the road from when this picture was taken. I was just too shocked to take a picture in time. The storm was medium scary then lightened up as hit Davenport.
We arrived in Princeton around 5:30, checked into the hotel then headed to walmart to buy vegetables for dinner. Sunday potlucks are great in Iowa, but I think they only grow plants for cows to eat there or something.
Anyway the rest of the evening was spent eating dinner and calming Beth because that same storm system was hitting us again. Tornado watch till 9! Here's the view outside our window.
Anyway, hopefully we'll be in Grand Rapids to see Aunty Khara and Uncle Stephan and two potential suitors for Aurelia's hand just after lunch. If there's no post tomorrow check the news to make sure an F-3 or higher Tornado didn't pass through Princeton.
"Medium Scary" hahaha....love the family photo! I bet Auntie Kristen and Uncle Jon were super bummed you guys had to leave. Walmart to buy vegetables? Yuck.
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You took my grand baby into a tornado....what were you thinking???!!! Well, thank God for His protection....thanks for keeping us posted I was wondering how close that storm was coming toward you.
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that fam photo is a keepa!
ReplyDeleteanya is cray cray for falling asleep during your discussion. i'll pray for her.