Saturday, July 3, 2010

July 2 in Des Moines

We spent the morning checking out more of the vendors.

In the afternoon we hopped on a tour bus for a little tour of the governor's residence and the Weeks mansion. Both are National History Sites.

The Weeks mansion (on the inside) looks a lot like the Hearst Castle. Rich dudes with money to blow and looking to Europe for the interior furnishings.

A stop at Suzette's Candy wrapped up the tour. Very nice. A little candy kitchen that puts out a lot of yummy candies.

For dinner we took the advice of our tour guide, our shuttle driver and the lady serving cocktails in the hotel....Centro. Glad we went there - just wish I hadn't eaten all day so I could have eaten more! The food and our server were five star.

I keep hoping that all the walking we are doing throughout the day at the Wing Ding is burning more calories than I am eating!

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