Exploring we will go***

We are now at our first full week here in Liberty and have already had a grand adventure. On Friday Bill announced that he had a little project at work he had to do on Saturday - is anyone who knows Bill surprised at this - and asked if I wanted to go along. Well, the project turned out to be a trip to Tulsa (that's in Oklahoma) and is a short 4-1/2 hour drive from here. We left at 3:30 a.m. and headed out. I slept most of the way and it rained torrents most of the way - fun Saturday activity I was thinking. Bill got his business taken care of (its still raining torrents by the way) and we went in search of lunch. A few years ago we met up with David (our grandson) his wife Lauren and their new baby, Mikayla at a restaurant named Cheddars and so we wanted to go there. We were able to find it and have lunch - it was fun reminiscing about seeing David, Lauren and meeting Mikayla for the first time. Bill said he remembered how good the shrimp was - I remembered the baby. Bill said he remembered where we sat - I remembered the baby. You get the picture. Anyway, we headed back (its still raining torrents). Coming back we found signs for the "Precious Moments" Chapel. On a whim we stopped to see what that was all about. Bill took a nap in the truck while I toured the Precious Moments Chapel - does that surprise anyone who knows Bill? Bottom line it was a lot of fun - a site to go see when all you guys come to visit. Note to Erin: I got a new "Precious Moments" nativity. We jumped back on the freeway only to find it closed at the next exit. When we got off there were no signs to say where to detour so we had a nice tour of rural Missouri while we tried to find a way back to the freeway. Its hard to get direction when the sun is covered and we went quite a bit East before we realized we were on the historic Route 66 and it went EAST not NORTH which is where we needed to be going. There was a lot of flooding and we supposed that was why the freeway was closed. End of story is that we eventually found North and the freeway and our way home. It was an adventuresome day and I am grateful to have seen the Precious Moments Chapel!