Illinois

Over Memorial Day weekend

we got away to Illinois.

My man went to high school in Waukegan and his folks

lived there for about 43 years

after moving from MN.

We went to spend some time with Younger Sister

and Hubby and one son home from college.

(the other college age son was at our house just before Memorial Day weekend)

Fun kids - all of them!

One of the things we did - that I remembered to take pictures of -

was the Illinois Railroad Museum

in Union, IL.

Of all the railroad museums we have been to, and there have been

several to many,

this one is the one of the best preserved and most diverse.

(The B & O Museum in Baltimore is good too).

They were having a reenactment of some battles from WWII, and

there were Confederate and Union soldiers from the Civil War,

WWI soldiers, army nurses, waitresses, girlfriends of soldiers,

some Italian civilians resisters, several Nazis.

Along with tents and various props.

It was kind of fun seeing all this going on, besides the trains.

We had a very nice time up there in IL, then stopped in Branson

on the way home.

There, we mostly just drove around and looked at the scenery.

And saw 1 show.

The Baldnobbers.

We've seen them several times before, but we so enjoy laughing

at those comedians.

They actually have very very funny CLEAN humor.

And some of it is laugh out loud stuff.

And the music is pretty good too.

Then my dear husband took me to see

the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie.

He was kind of bored, I loved it.

Anyway, it was good to get away for a week or so,

but not so great to come home to AUGUST in JUNE!!!

Way too early for this triple digit junk.

I'm ready to go to Idaho or Colorado - just get me back to my mountains!!

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