The girls and I spent last week in the midwest! Our flight started at Dulles. The girls and I were not seated together, and I was thinking this might not be so bad . . . But, some nice fellow offered to switch with me, and we ended up together anyway.
We landed in Minneapolis where Grandpa picked us up and drove us to South Dakota for a lovely visit with him and Grandma. We loved their garden; Grandpa has a green thumb! We picked and canned more vegetables than you can imagine!
Picking beets and brussel sprouts! Madeline loves to eat brussel sprouts if you can believe it!
Look at these cucumbers!
Helping to train their new dog, Dani D.
There were some kid activities in downtown Milbank. This one was a ping pong ball drop. The firefighters dropped balls labeled with store names, and the kids scrambled to collect them. You could take the balls to the different stores and redeem them for prizes.
The ping pong ball drop was followed by a coin dig. A couple hundred dollars in coins was buried in this sand pile. Both girls collected about five dollars each after digging around for about twenty minutes.
No trip west is complete without a trip to Adrian, Minnesota. We saw aunts and uncles, cousins and second cousins. As always, it was a blast! We had two days filled with tractor rides, four wheeler rides, a bon fire, and great food! Thank you to all of our midwest family and their hospitality!
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Wow! What a trip! How could they ever hope to eat all they grow! What a crop.
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