Garden Show

Izzy spotted the skeleton on this pirate ship very quickly and had to go see it.

We went to the Wichita Garden Show today with Jimmy and the girls. Maranda had a solo contest to supervise so she missed out on the fun. The girls really loved the show and didn't want to leave. First thing in the door we saw the Gem and Mineral Society display and the lady took the girls over to a bowl with rocks and let each pick out a rock. The girls were thrilled. Each carried their rock around the entire show. Next we saw a bread booth and they had a sample of each bread which they loved. I think they would have been happy to have left then. :)

Going to the show was similar to going to the fair with the girls - we get stopped a lot and asked if they are triplets and how old they are and of course told how cute they are which we agree. Once a lady asked Izzy how old she was and Izzy was holding Jimmy's hand so she carefully set her rock on the floor and held up four fingers and said four. Lily then said "I'm four too and so is Audrey" The lady and her friends all laughed as did we since we had already established that they were triplets. There was a couple with tiny twins, probably a month old. They kept staring at the girls and talking to each other and so I said, "we beat you by one". They both started laughing and we visited a bit about the girls and their boy and girl.

The theme this year was movies and one display was the movie "Up" which the girls have seen and were thrilled to see this display. Another was Jurassic Park and they were not too fond of the mean looking dinosaurs. The Avatar one was fun because the walk way would light up if you stepped on certain blocks.

Botanica had a great little display with a tunnel for little ones to crawl through. Jimmy stood on one end and I stood at the other and they all three crawled through.

We had a great time at the show and went to Old Mill Tasty Shop for lunch after. This place is on Douglas and was very crowded and very loud but the girls liked the food and so did we. The best item on their menu is milk shakes which we skipped as we figured the girls wouldn't eat their lunch if they had milk shakes. I told Jimmy he would need to come back sometime with Maranda and sample their shakes as they are fabulous. My friend Goldie and I meet there for lunch some times and split a milkshake - it is the old fashioned type they serve in the metal container with a glass.

After we came home I had a most interesting (and long) phone call from a cousin of my dad. She is 86 (will be 87 in June "if she lives"). She lives in Maryland and called a couple of years ago too. She is a delight to listen to although sometimes it is hard to keep up as she talks about her three brothers and her three sons and sometimes you aren't sure which she is talking about. I have never met the woman but know just about everything about her from her phone calls. She lived in Wichita when she met her husband - she went to business college here and he was in the Air Force and was playing baseball. They married and moved to Maryland and she is still there but he died many years ago. She has three sons, eight grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. There were times I wished I were recording the conversation as she talked for 55 minutes and there were times I lost track of the conversation.