A Brief Trip West

Posted by Shelly

We recently traveled west. Greg flew to Iowa to visit his parents and I went to Colorado to visit mine.

While in Colorado I baked with my niece and nephew. We made Beach Cupcakes. [Recipe: Make a white cake. Add food coloring so the cake is a nice tropical ocean blue. Fill cupcakes ½ way, place a gummy fish is each cupcake, top with additional batter. Bake. Mix white frosting. Add food coloring to half of it so it matches the cupcake. Frost half of each cupcake white and half blue. Put crushed cookies on the white frosting (to represent sand). Fold bubble gum into a lounge chair, put on sand. Add a gummy life safer or gum ball as a beach toy. Top with a cocktail umbrella.] While certainly not the most delicious cupcake I have ever eaten, we had a fun time making them.


After a few days, Greg arrived in a van his parents have been trying to sell for the past year. They graciously lent it to us in exchange for our trying to sell it in Maryland. My parents are in the process of downsizing and since the new house does not have a formal living room, they agreed to let us have their dining room set as long as we came and picked it up. It took several hours to load the van, but eventually everything fit.




On our road trip across the country we stopped in Lawrence, KS (where we met), visited friends from Hong Kong that retired to a town in Missouri with a population of 322 people, and enjoyed a great Indian dinner with cousins in Ohio.