Mary arrived about Noon. I love my Moline airport. There are SIX airlines servicing it, so the prices are competitive -- and planes are landing all day long. I waited for Mary in the cellphone parking lot...
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| THERE SHE IS...arriving right on time!! Hey -- THE GIRL KNOWS HOW TO PACK... |
We hit the ground running. We were hooking up with TCMB Sandy and Linda -- and the first order of business was FOOD...
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| Since I discovered Sippi's last year -- and it's just down the street from the German-American Museum, so that means CHEESE FRIES for lunch... |
Then, we went on to the museum -- where 60 quilters all put together a small quilt (14 by 18 inches) -- using the same piece of Hoffman river fabric.
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| Sara Detweiler put together a very interesting challenge for 60 of her best friends... |
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| As it was hung, you could see the piece of river fabric, running through the display... |
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| I loved this piece, showing the 4th of July fireworks over the Centennial Bridge. |
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| The Rock Island Arsenal was depicted in several of the finished pieces. |
THEN -- we went on to see the permanent exhibits at the Museum. Apparently, in the 1840's, Davenport Iowa was to German immigrants what Rodeo Drive is to the Kardashians.
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| The Museum does a WONDERFUL job of telling their story... |
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| My favorite thing were the video diaries...they had young actors/actresses, dressed in period clothes, telling the story of their immigration. This woman came over on a ship with her husband and six children...then, her husband died. She made her living running a boarding house, and eventually bought a farm near Eldridge, Iowa. |
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| Like that wasn't enough for one day -- THERE WAS ONE MORE EXHIBIT at the Museum that really piqued our interest!! |
What a busy first day, eh? And like that wasn't ENOUGH TO DO -- we went home and had supper with the E team. Elliott and Emily came with the kids, and John made burgers. Lilly and Warren stayed afterwards -- just so Mary could watch them running up and down the hall.
No visit would be complete without a little kid hit, Mary!!
WOW...and when you think about this -- THAT WAS JUST HALF A DAY.
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