My Uncle Vernon has been seriously ill the last few months so we decided to
journey up to northeast Missouri to see him and a few other members of my family. We headed for a town called Mexico, Missouri. My uncle was in the hospital there and my cousin Karen Sue owns a
restaurant there.
We all had a nice homemade lunch at the Jackson Street Diner.
Karen Sue with the kids :) Her
restaurant is filled with tractors and Ben loved checking them out.
My cousin Becky's son Jared and her daughter
Alaina.
Pretty countryside.
After lunch we stopped by to see my Aunt Isabelle in Paris, Missouri. She is one of my father's sisters. She looks pretty good for 97!!! I think she got a kick out of meeting Piper Isabelle too!
Our final stop was to visit my cousin Becky Jo in Madison. She owns a
restaurant too which recently burned down. She picked herself up by the bootstraps and rebuilt an awesome new restaurant.
Becky got each of he kids a new
FarmAll Tractor. Ben got a pretty cool combine!
So in one day we traveled to Mexico, went by the outskirts of Louisiana, stopped in Paris and ended in Madison. Have to say it was a crazy around the world trip but we made it! haha!