but then you just run into more Creston people wherever you go...
To celebrate Valentine's Day with our honeys, Bobbie set up a night out at the Rusty Duck in Dexter. We'd been there once before, last year and had a good meal. It's a bit of a drive - the first exit past Stuart. For me, yawn, another drive towards DM. But it goes by quickly when I have a nice cocktail in my hand and am chatting it up with good friends. We ended up with a couple carloads - Eckhoffs with Higgins and Bobbie and Jeff with us.
Paul niftily avoided a deer south of Stuart. It was on the shoulder of the road. I just know, had I been driving it would have thought harder about dodging out onto the road! Dexter is a tiny burg, known previously to me only for Drew's Chocolates. My daddy used to buy them for our fam as he had a sales account in Dexter (probably some tiny department store that sold it all - from seed corn to lingerie..).
The restaurant is not large, and it was full when we got there. Bobbie had invited my roomie Joan and her hubbie Billy - and they had scrounged up bar tables for us all whilst we awaited our table. Good thing too because it took a while. I had a nice vodka tonic while I waited - no small town drink, they didn't just slap some vodka into flat tonic. They knew to include a lime. (One might take these things for granted, but I've been in small bars before where they don't even have citrus fruit!).
While we waited, two other groups came in with Crestonites. Ty and Peggy Rogers with Billy Stewart and his wife. Also Lori Vicker - don't know her married name. I worked with her at FNB when we first moved to town. Billy saw a guy he knew from Anita. Then, while we ate we saw a group from Earlham - including Scott Driscoll who is married to Melissa Winterstein. They live in Earlham now but are moving to Creston after the school year. Yes, Iowa is a small world!
I ate a delightful Orange Roughy. Good food! We got home by 11 PM - tried to meet up with McKims, who had gone with a group to Waterfront Market in DSM. But they picked Macksburg and we picked their house. So we missed connections - by the time they got home we were in our jammies...prolly a good thing no more liquor for us!
I got my honey a Green Bay Packers Super Bowl Champs T-Shirt for Val day - along with some chocolates. Jud texted me last night for advice on what to get Kara. I decided a dozen roses would be good - and a nice card. Every girl should get a dozen roses sometime from her honey. Not every year - especially on expected occasions like Val Day. But on the first one - a guy should do that! I'm pleased Jud consulted me.
Fun night out with good friends. Who says small town people don't have options!
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