Sparks/Reno, Nevada

Sunday, June 17, 2012
We arrived in Reno on Father's Day afternoon to visit with Connie and Jim Poulton. Connie sent an email to her brothers and sister detailing our visit. Hope you don't mind, Connie, you did such a good job of documenting our visit, I'm copying your email below and adding a few notes in red and photos. The last time we saw Connie and Jim was when they lived in Italy and stopped by to visit us in Germany...think the year was 1986.

Yesterday afternoon, Father's Day, Candy (Brodbeck) and Mel Edgerley came through Reno and stopped for a visit!  Candy and I are about a month apart in age, and we attended K-8 (1950-1959) at Chestnut Park School (Savanna, IL), all four years (1959-1963) at Savanna Community High School, and graduated from Northern Illinois University on the same day in 1967. After catching up on old times and hearing a little organ music (Connie's husband, Jim, is an excellent organist), we did somesightseeing: Visit to Melissa & Max's (Glenn) new home on Orange Plains in Spanish Springs, NV (Connie's daughter and son-in-law who will be moving in to their beautiful new home in the next week.) Drive to The Biggest Little City in The World (Reno, NV) Edge of the University of Nevada, Reno campus, attending to the College of Education (Connie attended) and the College of Agriculture (where Melissa works, assistant to the Dean) Walking tour through 3 casinos Circus Circus (midway games and giant elephant statue with balls below) Silver Legacy (mining machine) El Dorado (Neptune Fountain) Viewing of the Golden Rooster at John Ascuaga's Nugget, Sparks, NV Dinner in the Rotisserie Buffet at John Ascuaga's Nugget, Sparks, NV   (No, we didn't win the $403,576.71, but we did manage to lose $25 before we walked out the door.)  A very fine time was had by all! We hope to see each other again at the 50th Savanna High School Reunion. Thank you Connie and Jim for the grand tour of Sparks and Reno as well as that great buffet dinner at the Nugget. I'm sure I gained more than a few pounds even though I did limit myself to only three desserts.  We had a quiet night camping out in the Casino parking lot and headed out for California in the morning.