Aunt from Omaha

Aunt from Omaha comes to visits and has to spend time with me. She stays at my Mom's place. Mom is crippled and doesn't travel well. Aunt is stir crazy bored out of her mind. They visited the other relatives and Mom complained she wore her out. Aunt has to have activity, but poor crippled Mom prefers to stay put. If you had the flu or broken leg, you wouldn't want to walk all over the city either. So for our outing Aunt insists upon. I offer to drive her to the local historic houses she hasn't seen before. Look them up on the internet.

 

Historic houses closed on Mondays so took aunt to Botanical Center (giant greenhouse and outside gardens) and she complains about all the green stuff (trees and cacti). She wants flowers. We did find some colorful flowers.

 

Then we passed a Chinese Garden down the road (so stopped) to hear aunt comment how weird it was to set in the middle of Des Moines. We do have many Asians here. She thought the pagoda house was weird too asking what do you do with a place like this. I said you can have a reception, picnic, and look at the statues. I rather liked it. Then got on the dam bridge next to Chinese garden and birds circle then diving in the water at once. Couple guys were fishing and people were walking the nearby trail.

 

Then came to my place. Aunt petted Precious once and later told him to get off the couch (which he disobeyed cause I let him on the couch). Showed Aunt pictures on my computer. She was full of questions from do the cats go outside to who move the furniture into my place. Then took Aunt back to my Mom's for supper. Very nice day too, rolled up my sleeves it was so warm. I stored away all my short sleeve shirts.

 

Went grocery shopping, I prefer to do that w/out my aunt exclaiming how my mascara costs more than my milk. She tends to do things like that. Like my Mom, she often blurts out whatever she is thinking with no edit button on how others might interpret what she is saying. I work in customer service and have a strong edit button. Customer misunderstanding you or thinking your are rude can get you fired in my line of work.