Taken from our train window near Neponset, Illinois.
Thompson River in Iowa
We are traveling just east of Afton, Iowa and we pasted over the Thompson river, which is almost frozen.
Katie Beth is sleeping. Karen is reading “The Main Corpse” by Daine Mott Davidson. I’m blogging.
Katie Beth and I are still sick. My head feels like it could pop. Relief needs to come soon or I could be jumping from the train.
Wynkoop Brewing Company
As we wait, we wait in comfort at the Wynkoop Brewing Company in the pool room up stairs. (Beautiful!)
We are running Katie Beth to tire her out.
Heading to the Amtrak Station
We are driving to the station with the Hertz driver. Everyone is tired and ready for home.
Heading Home
Yea!
We are finally heading home. We left Huntsville on November 15th and we will be back finally on December 10th.
Tomorrow, we board our train in Denver to start rolling towards Chicago.
With all of our traveling, we got to experience Halloween and Thanksgiving in Colorado Springs.
What I have been doing lately…
This is the stuff I have been working on lately as reported by the Associated Press.
Snowman
Karen made a snowman on our deck with the snow we got today. The snow was very dry so it took a lot of work to make the balls. Yes, those are vegetables for the hair, eyes, nose, and mouth. Greenbeans, corn and carrots are easy to work with if you use a baby fork to poke holes in the snow first.
Katie Beth had great fun with the snowman, but she kept wanting to step on Karen’s snow balls.
I tried to teach Katie Beth how to make snow-angels. Karen captured it on video, which looks funny. Karen is editing the video now so I hope to get something on the web site.
Still Hanging in Colorado Springs
Work is going well, but we are already talking about extending our stay through the 12th. I doubt that our trip will be extended, but you never know.
The weather is great today with the high getting into the 60’s. I hope to get out of work early so I can enjoy the weather.
What’s Happening
We had a good trip out to Colorado Springs. The first signs of colds coming on had started, but we were not too affected by the colds.
We stopped in Chicago on Sunday, November 16th and froze. We went to St. Patrick church, which was very pretty.
We had Thanksgiving dinner with a bunch on my co-workers associated with my project. We even got dressed up pretty.
Katie Beth didn’t like that we woke her up prior to dinner, but she recovered quickly as went down to dinner. Everyone seems to enjoy her at the social that followed. I think we all enjoyed the social.
I didn’t have to work the Saturday or Sunday associated with Thanksgiving weekend. On Saturday, we went to Castle Rock to go shopping at the outlet stores. While Karen shopping for Katie Beth, I took Katie Beth to play in the snow. She didn’t actual play, but she did walk through it.
You may have to listen closely, but I ask her in the video if she wants to pick up snow. She says, “No!”
Meaning evenings we relax in the Antlers lobby and listen to the jazz music, which Katie Beth will dance to while we watch.
I will post more soon. Katie Beth just woke up. Sorry about the grammar and typos.
Gift hat from Castle Rock
We were outlet shopping at World Imports and a lady gave Katie Beth
this hat. She had made it herself.