yay!!

huzzah for going the really long way and cheating the system...kinda!


by echome7

sooo this is the train at happy joes! and it goes around up high near the the ceiling if you put in a quarter, and then if it stops in one of the four special places you can get a free sundae or small drink or small pizza, it's a source of much entertainment. we always go to happy joes the afternoon we get there and sooo wonderful. we went with our cousins jolene, emily, and aunt maryann (steve's family) and then grandma and grandpa of course!


by echome7

these are all the little prizes we won. they have a few games in this one little room like a basketball, and a broken skeeball/soccer thing and the light goes back and forth and you hit it on bonus you get the two hundred tickets or w/e. so grandma gives us each a few quarters and we had enough for everybody to get a cute little plastic finger puppet, i got a purple monkey.


by echome7

shoes in iowa city! iowa city is so nice and clean! i love it. though it is really, really liberal. iowa's funny that way. like dubuque is the most amazingly catholic city, and it's liberal! but anyways. so we went up to iowa city one day, we have an aunt and uncle up there, and my aunt is the head of the children's department in the library downtown. well outside of the most awesomest library i have ever seen there are...


by echome7

fountains!!! yay!!! there are these five holes in the ground and they spit water out in an arch and soo much fun!!!! there's also a...


by echome7

playground!!! yay!!! and it's really nice too, not just a dinky little jungle gym set.

okay, onto the next set of pictures!