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WWGTG Des Moines, IA Picture thread

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Last night Lu and myself met up with Butch and Jo and Matt and Dawn and went to "Stella's" for dinner, unfortunately the only pic I got was of Butch's tenderloin, lol.   Was having such a good time and conversation, forgot to take any more pics, lol


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This morning myself and Lu, and Butch and Jo went to Cherry Glenn campground to visit with Matt and Dawn a bit, mercy the stifling humidity, I mean my feet were sweating, lol.   What an AWESOME campground and the lake was breathtaking.  Met Jabrd's bettter half and the baby, how sweet, what a precious age, four months old, will get pics of  the little ham later on.
 

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This is a shot of Jbrd's unit across the road!
 

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Heres a couple of shots of this gorgeous lake from atop the dam road.
 

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As this area of the midwest has had an inordinate amount of rainfall, the were releasing some water from Saylorville Lake into the Des Moines river, wow the water gushing was, well kinda awesome!
 

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Here's one of Jbrd's four month old, a few of us are in the motel parking lot, getting ready to go to Hardee's Fri night cruise in.
 

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Dusted and ready to go!


Shawns extra seat!
 

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Really you'd think we could all park together, lol


Just chattin a bit
 

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Thanks for the Pics Didit it looks gorgeous there, keep them coming.
 
Well as luck would have it about fifteen minutes after I did a quick shine on my AV, uh it started raining again!  Go figure...............  heres a few folks under the motel walk canopy waiting on the rain to quit.  It finally did and we went on to the other side of town where, guess what it was raining, lol.  The car show and cruise in at Hardees was cancelled. 
 

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After spending a few minutes at Hardee's, we headed downtown to the Spaghetti Works for dinner, we parked in a parking garage, alllll the wayyyyyyy up to the rooooooof where guess what, yep it was raining, lol.  I did manage to get a few shots during the brief periods it was not pouring.

Here are a couple of the Des Moines skyline going into town
 

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AV lineup on the rooftop of the parking garage
 

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We had eight AV's on  the rooftop, and I passed one on the way up, lol.  No tag.

Heres a couple of rooftop shots, in the second one, you can see some of our gang going to the Spaghetti works, the ones with umbrellas lol

The third pic is a hmmm "arial tag" maybe, lol  dunno, saw it from the rooftop
 

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Ok, heres the deal, I'm not a photographer by any means, as I'm sure you know by now, lol.  We chose not to go to the Spaghetti Works only because it was an after thought, a good one, however we had Molly with us and there was no way I was leaving my baby on the rooftop all alone, she's scared of heights by herself!  Soooooo we drove by the Spaghetti Works and tried to take a couple of pics in the pouring down rain, lol.   NOT A GOOD IDEA, lol.   The building under the red sign is where they were, right on the sidewalk row inside the restaurant.  On one of the drive bys, you could see Goldbowtie and Toots and a couple of them waving, however I don't think the camera shows that.  RAIN RAIN GO AWAY!

 

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Didtit, sorry that you guys could not join us for the great dinner last night but you could have walked Molly down and hitched her at the curb, she is not afraid of a little rain is she?   :laugh:

I was surprised that the lifted Avalanche made it up to the top in that parking garage!

Having a great time and hope to broadcast live a couple of times later today!
 
Early morning modding, sniff I was the only one up, lol.  Doing the "energy suspension" frame mount bushings and the sway bar end links for Harly

and the all four on high and full time DRL mod
 

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How precious, this one is  5 months old, Hrly and  Jolynn's baby Aubrey
 

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Lining up to go for a Train Ride, can you say choooooo choooooo
 

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My av got a lot of love in the pics! I am not very able bodied so I mostly just stand around and collect dust while others mod my truck  :E:! Broken foot = no fun!
 
05HrlyHlr said:
My av got a lot of love in the pics! I am not very able bodied so I mostly just stand around and collect dust while others mod my truck  :E:! Broken foot = no fun!

I told ya Dr Didit  (y)
 
I'm kinda bushed, just got in  the room its after midnight our time, and we've been doing some well midnight modding, lol.  When we got back to the room after dinner, Hrly and Eric were sitting out behind their AV's ready to knock it out, bummer I had the rear bushing's in my room, ugh.  I was bushed but Eric was pumped and ready to knock it out, got Hrly's rear energy suspension bushings in, Eric, way to jump in there, your awesome we really appreciate that.  Heres a couple of close to midnight pics.
 

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Here are a few of the train pics, it was a pretty awesome train ride, this steam locomotive that we were on was the very last one off the assembly line in China.  There was a "high bridge" we went across, some were squeamish, lol.  It was 150 some feet in the air.
 

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