Enjoying the Yellow Brick Road

We were exhausted after the wedding and slept well. We got up to enjoy a nice Sunday brunch with the wedding party. We then went over to spend time at Sheila and Don's house (Sheila is Bill's cousin--the mother of the groom). They had to go back to the hall and pick up the food and decorations...they have so much food left over! They were planning on 300 people and only about 150 came....so they brought home the huge buffet bins filled with meat, corn, potatoes, etc. Now these will go along with the tons of brownies left over from the rehearsal dinner. They literally could do another huge party. While they were gone we watched TV and fell asleep. Then we had a pleasant time catching up with the news of their family.

We then drove to Russell Kansas to Cindy and Jim's house. (Cindy is Bill's cousin.) We chatted endlessly catching up on years' worth of news. Bill and Cindy recollected their childhood memories of their grandparents and their farm. Then we taught them how to play cribbage. The girls whooped the guys! Way to go girls!

The wind came up and then we began to experience thunder and lightning. A fun experience for us Californians!

We finally experienced a leisurely morning. Jim brought us the famous Kansas breakfast pizza. It was so good! We chatted in our jammies, ate pizza and drank our morning coffee.

Around noon we headed to a dock that Jim and Cindy own at a nearby lake. It is a dock that is covered and has a picnic table. They have a boat and we cruised around the lake enjoying the sun and the sights. We stopped at a cove and went swimming..the water was perfect temperature! We had a barbque and then we all fell asleep from so much activity!

This dock is infamous in our family's memories. When we visited here 15 years ago we stayed until the sun set and spiders appeared everywhere from underneath and completely surrounded us. Especially spooky at dusk! Arachnophobia!!

We are enjoying their tiny two lap dogs "Kermie" a yorkshire terrior (who is really their daughter's dog) and "Little" a chihuahua. They had fun on the boat too.

We video cammed with our kids and Grandma B and had fun catching up with the news of the family back home (and in Sunnyvale). Cindy and Jim have Mac computers (as we do) so all four of us are sitting around with our white laptops doing whatever we need to do.

Hopefully we'll whoop the guys again in cribbage!