Visiting in North Dakota

After a wonderful stay in the Devil's Lake area we drove to Bismarck where we visited with our North Dakota cousins. Billy and Doreen had us over for drinks and out to dinner. They have a beautiful home and an awesome view of the Missouri River from their backyard. We had a little problem with the motorhome so the next day we dropped it off for repair and went to the Heritage Center in Bismarck - it is very well done it takes you from the Dinosours to present day. We went to dinner at Bill and Doreen's and Chuck and MaryAnn drove down from Valley to join us. Bill is a great cook and we had a wonderful dinner which included Dick and I eating brussel sprouts - really. We enjoyed a fire with cigars and port. On Saturday Dick and I took a drive to the Lewis & Clark Center and the fort. We did a lot of siteseeing and gathered alot of information about the indians and Lewis and Clark.
On Sunday we drove out to look at the cutest "cocker spaniel hunting dogs" I could have brought them all home with me. It was a very warm day and people were boating on the Missouri river - they even have a sandbar (just like at the river). That evening we visited with Dick's cousin Michael and his wife Karol. The next morning we had a very delicious branch and visited with Dick's Aunt Maxine and cousins Penny and Susan. It was good to see them and Maxine looked great.

Tuesday we left for Valley City and were able to do some golfing at three different courses in the area. We had dinner with Dick's cousin Harlon and Sharon and then met up again with them to go to the big craft show at Fort Ransom - after that we played golf in Grand Rapids - this is a golf course built by the farmers. It is also a city where Dick's grandparents lived and his grandfather worked as the custodian of the schools - we had visited there on our 2007 trip.
We had dinner with Chuck and MaryAnn and plans were made for Dick to join the harvest team again this year. With that decision made we decided it would be best for us to head for home with the motorhome and Dick could fly back to ND- he will work with Chuck, Gary and Billy and then do a little pheasant hunting with Tom, Greg and Michael.