Well, this past weekend I traveled down to Dubuque, Iowa to get together with some friends from High School. We decided to do this after the funeral of our friend Brian Gienau, who was killed in Iraq Jan 27th of this year. We had lost track of Brian and each other and decided we should not allow that to happen any more. I traveled down to Dubuque with my friends Vicki and Kim. (Vicki lives in Waverly and Kim lives in Des Moines.) We traveled to our friend Anne’s house and on Saturday Laura drove up. I ended up being the only dude cause Dave and Pat were unable to go.

So we hung out Friday and drank some martini’s and stuff and Saturday drove around Dubuque. We went up this lift/elevator thing that went up at a sharp a$$ angle up this hill that has been around for a long long time. It was old and kinda creepy, but we survived. Here are some pictures:

Then we decided to stop into the Greyhound Park and Casino to do some gambling. First we watched/bet on a few dog races. (I lost..) Then we went to the slots… I blew like $10 in the quarter slots in 10 minutes.. Anne and Vicki lost like a dollar, and then there was Laura… She didn’t gamble at all until right at the end where she stuck two quarters in a slot machine and got nothing.. then she put two more in and BAM she won $50. So damn lucky. Right after that Kim gave Laura two of her quarters in the machine and BAM $10 winner. Pretty sweet. Here is a picture of Laura and her winnings.

It was a good weekend, now on Monday I had to go up to Madison. (I’m in my hotel room right now.) and since Dubuque is on the way I stopped at the casino and went to the same slot machine hoping it would treat me good… Unfortunately luck was not with me. Maybe I’ll give it a go on the way home.. who knows. Well, until later…

-Chris

P.S. oh, I took this picture of Kim at Walmart where she found a Patrick doll but she renamed it to Mulva.