The Widow Date

Yesterday even though the actual temperature climbed up to a steamy 98 degrees it didn't stop a good group to make a trip to Norris. Beth invited all the widows of the Peoria church for lunch out at the Herman Lake in Norris, IL. The Jail ladies (not inmates, volunteers) stayed the night at Norris to help get everything ready for these very special guests. Jenny, Diane's daughter, catered the meal. The bus picked them up at church at 9:00am and drove them first to the Old School Center in Farmington, IL where they Spark gave them a tour of that huge facility. As I am not a widow and not a jail volunteer, my camera was sent along with mom for pictures. The first picture is once they were off the bus and into the elevator. The camera fogged up so bad getting off the airconditioned bus.

The next picture is in the big theater room.

Norris, IL is the next little town south of Farmington and once back on the bus it didn't take long to arrive at the Herman Lake. This is one of Herman Pond Management's trophy lake. Nate raises multi species of HUGE fish. Mom was given instructions to get pictures of the widows pulling up these huge fish but she was too busy SWIMMING to think about action shots. The ladies not only went fishing but most of them went down the water slide, took boat rides and had a really wonderful time. The next couple of pictures are getting ready for lunch, then sitting down to eat.


What a wonderful place to spend a very hot day!
Everyone had such a great time, Beth decided to make it an annual occasion.
Church last night was moved to the fellowship hall as a transformer blew and there was no electricity in our Peoria church building. We arrived a bit early, sat down near the front. Before the service started, more chairs were needed, People started streaming in. Some of the brothers started pulling racks of chairs out of the storage and lining them up, this went on until the fellowship hall was FULL. Ken Hoerr had the service speaking on the tribulation to come. Of course after the service everyone wanted to stay and visit, we didn't arrive back until after 9:30pm and the filly needed to be given another 2500 lactate ringer IV. Finally by 11:30pm I crashed in bed. This morning the filly seems a bit better but I'M STILL TIRED!