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Family
Patco’s Travels; Featuring Brother-in-Law Paul
Patco recently attended a few games in St. Louis to cheer on Jonco’s brother Paul (who did all the traveling in this edition of Patco’s Travels).
She writes: There were 6 teams of over age 80 men from all over who traveled to Edwardsville Illinois. Paul’s traveling team from Kansas City joined with teams from Chicago, Florida and Las Vegas. Tuesday was a grueling day with three games back to back to back. In the second game we had 3 over the fence home runs. Then the umpire said that any home run after that will automatically be a single. So we had an additional 2 Home Run Singles in that game. On the second day, a fellow Glutton, Steve Ketner who also still plays softball in St Louis, came by to cheer Paul’s team on.
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Patco’s 2nd Great Is On The Way!
We had a baby shower on Mother’s Day weekend, appropriately enough! Mom and I came up with a few games for the guests to play. But the best part, in my opinion, were the prizes. We bought a piece of cake and a slice of pie and I made tags that said “Having a baby is a piece of cake*” and ” Having a baby is easy as pie*” and in small print at the bottom: *for everyone except the parents!! Dave, Vince & Maddi did an excellent job with the rest of the party; cleaning, decor and foods. Fun was had by all and Logan & Joe got some nice gifts. For example, did you know they make an automatic formula machine – like a Keurig coffee maker?!
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Patco’s Travels – to Memphis
Last weekend, Granddaughter Logan was coaching a soccer tournament, so we took the weekend to travel and catch some soccer!
On Friday morning, Krisgo and I got to the Peabody Hotel in Memphis in time to see the ducks come down the elevator and walk the red carpet to the fountain in the lobby. Logan, Joe and Sammy were saving us a chair at the table as the lobby was filling up fast. The Duck Master explained that this tradition started in the early 1900’s and has continued everyday at 11:00AM when the ducks come down from the roof, swim in the fountain all day and return to the roof via elevator at 5:00PM.
After leaving we explored the Bass Pro pyramid on the riverfront. This is the largest Bass Pro Shop in the world, and also has the largest free-standing elevator right in the center. The pyramid use to be a basketball arena before Bass Pro bought the building.
After having lunch with the Grandkids near Beale street, Krisgo and I went to the Botanical Gardens of Memphis to visit their Troll display throughout the park. Read about the display HERE. It was very neat – we really enjoyed it!
Dave and Staci came down also and we all met for lunch at Central BBQ – where ‘smoke is our sauce’ – very good!
Saturday and Sunday were Soccer tournament days. We watched my Granddaughter Logan and her friend Sammy coach their team to victory. It was chilly and super windy!!
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