My brother Derek is up in MN for a while with work. Today he came down to visit with us!
Keith had his golfing tournament thing with work buddies this morning. Sadly it was cut short. It starting thunderstorming this morning. They got 4 holes in then had to stop. The guys went home, then got back together for lunch and prizes at noon. He was back home by 2pm. Kind of good since he was able to spend time with Derek too. We waited till he got home before we went out caching.
Went out and hit 7 caches and one we couldn't find. It was a fun time with Derek. Great to have another set of eyes and sick humor! He had no probs finding most of the ones. Keith beat him to a couple though. But he came in most handy when there was a cache in a lamppost with wires. Derek was brave (or stupid) and got it. But not before tearing apart part of a fence. Or the cache where he stuck his head in the street to look down a pipe at street level. Or the one where he saw the cache under a bridge and made me get it. Don't remember if it was because he said it was too muddy and slippery, or too wet to grab. Or the first cache we found where Keith spotted it, then I did, but Derek couldn't see it for a few minutes. We forgave him on that one!
After the final cache (final because we started getting storms) Derek (or his work) treated us to dinner at Red Robin. Poor Derek had a meal planned to then realized it didn't come with the endless fries, so he had to find something else. Oh and he was told about the tomato salmanello thing going around. I think he freaked realizing at dinner last night he had chili with tomatoes and salsa with tomatoes. Thankfully he's still alive and not sick! But maybe a little ticked at that restaurant.
As we were leaving dinner the skies opened up and we got drenched running to the car! Driving home Keith heard something...the tornado sirens going off! Hey welcome to Iowa, Derek, lol! Listened to the radio and found the tornado was north of us. We're in the clear, sorta. Just some heavy rain and thunder/lightening.
Derek finally headed back north aroun 7pm. It was great to see him again!! Too bad it was such a short time, but anytime with relatives is nice to have!
I ran out to get a paper after that. Come to find half of Marion is without power. A big clap of thunder we heard I think turned out to be more than that! Not sure but I had to drive a bit to find a store that had power. HyVee was running on a generator. I drove by one road that had a ton of flashers on it. Figuring a transformer blew up. We've still got power, so that is nice. But 2 streets south and they're out. 7 blocks west and they're out. 10 blocks east and they're out. Small radious with power.
Kids are in bed now. i think they're too tired to stay up and listen to the thunder.
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