Grand Tour - Missouri, Kansas, Illinois - Day Nine

Brock and Brady ready for school

It is not possible to sleep in at the Aurora Pickett's, at least on a school day.  As you can see in the photo, the boys seem ready to take on the world.  I walked the couple of blocks to their school with them.  It was a bit cooler than the day before but nothing like it would be in another day.

Brendan had left for work even before I got up.  Braden goes to school first and I drove her to Bendarcik Middle School.  I checked the web page and was pleased to see Braden's picture right on the front page.  She is a member of the cross country team and will be participating in the sectionals on Saturday.

It took the remaining adults a while to get ready to go but we finally got off to a day in Geneva, a lovely little town along the Fox River.  We remember it from our niece  Kristen's, wedding.  We were there on a summer day and this was far from that.  It was cool and we had hoped that it would be sunny but that was not to be.

Fox River at Geneva

I dropped Marilyn and Eileen off to do some shop visiting while I stopped by a Starbucks and then down to the river for some photos.  While it was cloudy, there were plenty of photo opportunities.  You can view that photo album here.  We had lunch on State Street, the main drag, which was also the site of the Geneva high School Homecoming Parade.  Marilyn stopped at a dance apparel shop to see if she could find a little outfit for Molly.  We thus found ourselves on State Street when the parade began.  You can see video of the marching band here.

Below is a quick video clip of white egrets flying over the Fox River.

Once we got home, I took a nap and then we all went to Brock's soccer game.  He played very well and we were rewarded with a beautiful sun set, the only time we saw the sun that day.  You can see an album of photos from his soccer game here.