Sightseeing in Kansas!

Last night was the Kansas State vs. Kansas University football game.  A VERY big game in this town.  Ted and I donned Kansas State t-shirts and headed over to Gary & Katies!  They were very surprised and pleased at our choice of shirts!  We had great barbeque from a local restaurant and watched K-State win big 59-7!  This was a good thing!

Katie saw a Passion Vine growing when she and Gary first got married and she vowed that when they got their own house she would have one.  She forgot about it for all these years and came upon one in Texas.  She didn't really want to try and get it back to Kansas but found one when she got home.  She planted it and here are the results, they are so pretty!

Today Gary took us for a ride around the areas surrounding Salina.  He took us up on one of the very few hills in Kansas where a work project was done in 1936.   Using local rock they built a "lookout" with  picnic tables inside and a second floor that looks over the area.  I took pictures but for some reason I can't get them to download!

We also drove around and looked at the ranch Katie's brother has where he raises and keeps bulls for rodeos.  We looked at the town of Linsdborg, a small Sweedish community with lots of cute little stores.  We had a sandwich at a Sweedish Bakery.  Gary was going to take me fishing but my back has been having spasms and I didn't think I could fish (darn)!

Tonight we are having dinner with them at the "Manor", a retirement home.  It is an annual fundraiser for them.  We went before and the food is good and the people very nice!

Finding a hill in Kansas..."Ain't Life Grand!"