My oldest son, Brad, and his family were here for 4 days which gave me an opportunity to get to know my grandsons a little better. They are fine boys, and very eager to help gramma. The eldest grandson, Jayson, wants to go to KU as a soccer player so I'll see how that develops since he's only 12 years old.
Both boys are into soccer in a big way. The younger grandson, Christopher, says he want to play for the Barcelona team! He's 8 years old. Their family had a great time at Silver Dollar City and Branson and the boys favorite was the go-carts.
Sunday started a short adventure that I really enjoyed. I met my sis, Barbara, in Topeka around noon.
Sis lives in a small farming community about an hour+ south of Topeka and I'm about an hour+ east of Topeka. She left her car at our nephew's home and we travelled together to Abilene. We checked into the Holiday Inn Express and then headed to the downtown area. We found some antique stores and, of course, we just had to walk around a couple of them.
We were on a mission, so to speak. Barbara was hunting vintage tablecloths. In her town of Reading, there is a small cafe called The Miracle that the townspeople had gathered together to renovate and help setup for business. They are now encouraging women's groups and seniors groups to visit The Miracle for teas, luncheons, meetings. The tablecloths will add an air of 'time gone by' country gentility.
In the late afternoon we joined our brother, Richard, and his wife, Kathy, who had also checked into the hotel. They were travelling back from their vacation in Colorado and were stopping to spend the night and rest before heading on back home in Lenexa, which is very close to my home. Anyway, we all went to dinner at the Brookville Hotel to enjoy their special fried chicken dinner which includes a starter of relishes, followed with fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, coleslaw, cottage cheese, and biscuits, and ending with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Wow! Were we stuffed by the time we walked out. Remember, it's all you can eat and I had 3 pieces of chicken. The whole dinner was NOT on my Weight Watchers, which I had put on hold for the whole little trip!
The four of us had a wonderful time that evening, laughing and telling stories that at our age we have probably told many times!! Then again at breakfast before Richard and Kathy headed on out for home. After they left we got packed up and checked out of the hotel but we headed back into town to visit at least one more antique store. When we were all done shopping we went to an actual soda fountain which is at Bankes Drug, 304 N. Broadway, Abilene. I had a huge real strawberry malt in an old fashioned tall glass container. We sat on the stools at the counter! It was the size of a super large and cost only $3.50. That was lunch! I mean it's dairy and fruit, so that's okay right?
We then headed home pleased with out 24 hr. adventure. There's quite a bit to do and see in Abilene but we just couldn't do it this time...maybe next time.
May God Bless family and friends.
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