Below you will see the flyer for our upcoming fundraiser! We are accepting donations big and small for our Adoption Benefit Sale...if you are local please stop by and say hello (and maybe even find a treasure or two)! If your not local you can still help out by praying for our benefit sale to go smoothly and that we would be blessed by great weather and lots of shoppers! Thank you so much!

Locust Day 2010

This past weekend Traci and I headed East to celebrate Locust day with our friends Steve and Tracy. What? You say you have never heard of Locust day? Well, not many people have... Our friend Tracy made it up when she was 10 years old. She felt bad that there were no holidays in the middle of August and decided to celebrate the fact that these noisy creatures were out and about during this time of the year. She started a yearly tradition of celebrating the return of the locust every Aug 17th.

This year's celebration was held at their new residence in Rocheport, MO and included several friends, family and neighbors. Traci and I were the only ones who made the trek from Kansas City and we enjoyed lots of good food and great conversation.

The celebration kept going until about 2 in the morning and ended with a tour of their 150 year old house. Traci and I were fortunate enough to get a room less than 200ft from their house at The Dorm Room. These are rooms specifically designed for bikers who are passing through on the Katy Trail. It consists of a bunk bed, full bath, TV, small refrigerator and queen size futon.

Stairwell in Traci and Steve's house

The Dorm Room

The next morning we enjoyed a light breakfast and walked around the town, river walk and part of the Katy trial. If you have never been to Rocheport, I recommend you make the trip and enjoy everything the town has to offer: Several bed and breakfasts, wineries, the Missouri River, Katy trail and the friendly people of the town.

Tunnel on Katy trail

Other side

Trail up to look out point

Look out point - view of Missouri River

River Walk - Traci way off in the distance

Bench overlooking the Missouri River

Missouri River

On our way home, we stopped by the Ethnic Festival in Swope park and enjoyed several hours of ethnic dancing, music and fantastic food from around the world. The day was topped off by a group of Ethiopian dancers.

Ethnic food and goods

Domo Arigato

By the time we arrived home, I was ready for a nap!

Hope your weekend was as eventful as ours.

Bill