Saturday, July 21, 2018

Wonderful family get-together for the Fourth







We actually went to the town of Independence, Kansas, to celebrate the Fourth of July with Karen's family. There were about 40 people, coming and going. Lots of wonderful food and new people to meet. The temperature was above 90° every day, it seemed hotter than Georgia. We went to a concert and an art show in the town, and had lunch the next day with a sweet couple in a farmhouse that reminded me so much of the one I grew up in on Beaver Creek, CO.
We flew into Tulsa via DFW, where Rick and Karen were waiting with a rental car to drive 2 hours to Grand Lake OK, to stay in a WorldMark resort. Karen got a 3-bedroom unit because we were hoping Robin could join us, but he just started training for a new job with a security service guarding a wealthy family in San Francisco. Grand Lake is almost 2 hours' drive from Independance, and we stayed a week, so we went there 3 or 4 times. Grand Lake is nice, too.
Going home, we did the reverse, but Richard & Karen were on the same plane to DFW, Karen to go on to Hawaii (for a funeral) and Richard to return to Jacksonville. In the Tulsa airport, Manfred fell and hurt his shoulder, so we had a strange time, there the paramedics wanted him to go to a hospital, but we didn't want to lose our tickets, so we flew anyway. United Airlines was not at all helpful.




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