During our trip, Clio and the rest of us took an excursion to the Quad Cities- same idea as the Twin Cities or Four Corners, except that for some reason Quad actually means "five" here- and actually hit both of the Iowa-side towns. First, we headed to the Putnam Museum in Davenport to check out Leonardo: Man - Inventor - Genius, where we all felt mighty inadequate in the face of Da Vinci's inventions, which basically laid the groundwork for all of mechanics, aeronautics, and battle tactics, if you take the show at face value.
We all enjoyed working the gears and levers, but Dave's parents were pretty disillusioned by his insistence that the models were replicas. We paid money for this? (By the way, I realize that the first picture doesn't add to the story, but don't I look kind of good?)
Afterwards, we headed to Bettendorf, Iowa to meet up with Barb's brother (Dave's Uncle) Don and his family at the Ramada, where they were preparing for a wedding later that afternoon.
Since we won't see them at Christmas this year, we took the opportunity to say a hello. For Clio, Christmas came early, as Don, Chevyoune, and Michaela gave her this Daisy Duck stuffed animal.
Clio did a little performing, naming off colors and numbers and doing all of the animal sounds, and despite two of Chevyoune's brothers and their wives (and the rest of us) she wasn't shy at all. Michaela told us about her favorite Bears (dressed for the afternoon in full sports regalia), sang a song or two, and Clio mugged for her (first) cousin (once removed).
(Finally! I've been trying to catch this on camera.)
Nice to see you guys- looking forward to next Christmas at MaMa and PaPa's!
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