Weekend Trip to Iowa

Well, getting settled back in after our very short weekend trip to the QC area to drop Maria off for her visiting vacation. She gets to spend a week with her grandparents, a few days with Aunt Tiffany and Grandma Marcia, and then a few days with Emma and her mom for some girly fun. She's been really looking forward to it! She was really excited about getting to go fishing with her Grandpa! I'm sure she will have a good time! I miss her already :(

Both the trip down and then back up were really pretty good! Exhausting, but uneventful in a good way. Although we did stop in Boscobel at a garage sale, and got quite a deal on a baby swing and bassinet! And let me just say that has to be the friendliest town in Wisconsin. After the sale we hit a gas station to fill up and the employees there were very chatty and friendly (as was the lady hosting the garage sale). They said I looked quite round - in a good way! :) It was a really nice traveling day. We left around 8:15 and got to Davenport around 3:30-4:00, where Maria's older sisters were anxiously awaiting her arrival. Their grandparents were able to arrange for them to stay the weekend. It was a really nice surprise for Maria.

It was nice to spend some time with the family. Unfortunately, Riley was running a fever :*( so she couldn't come over and play with Duncan, and we didn't get a chance to see how much she's grown! Ally was able to come over though and spend some time with us, that was nice :) And we got Taco Pizza!!! :) Yum! And the Happy Joe Special! :) oh it was so good! I totally miss so many of the restaurants! There aren't too many up here... of course there wasn't enough time to visit all of our favorites, but no place up here makes taco pizza and I'd been craving it for a while. Maria is in for a special treat when she gets to Aunt Tiffany's, as they opened a Panchero's in the QC! We used to go to the one in Iowa City at least every other week! It was our favorite. I think we actually went there once a week when I was pregnant with Duncan :) Of course I didn't find out they'd opened one there until about 10pm... if they would have been open for breakfast I would have gotten a burrito for breakfast! :) But Maria was just talking about Panchero's the night before we left, and I told her that no one was going to drive her to Iowa City to get Panchero's... turns out it's a lot less of a trip! She's so lucky! :)


Well, it was a good trip, even though it was a little short. Duncan learned a new skill on the way. He rediscovered his feet, especially his toes. He was putting his junior mints between his toes, then he decided to read his book by putting the covers between his toes to prop it open! Then of course he put his chicken nuggets between his toes and then ate them out! Too funny! But it kept him occupied!

When we got home and opened the gate, it looked like it had snowed in our yard! The big Poplar tree had been spitting cotton, but it must have really let it all go while we were gone!