One of the shops in Amana, obviously a clock shop.

In one of the furniture shops they had a very large selection of grandfather and cookoo clocks. Here's a few photos. Their wood furniture was absolutely amazing as well and you could go and view their production area where they make it on-sight.

A (very expensive) cookoo clock but very large and beautiful.

A different shop.

Luman & Sharon's back yard. It's hard to see him, but Luman (who's 82) is mowing the back yard. He's visible if you enlarge this - just coming out of the tree line to the right of the dark (uncut) strip down the middle. Their total lot is about 1.5 acres and it's ALL landscaped!

A better shot of him. It (only) takes him about 4 hours to mow their entire yard ...!!! He's the one who maintains most of their flower & vegetable gardens and lawn. Pretty amazing.. if only mine could look a fraction of how nice his are.

Luman shortly after coming inside from mowing all afternoon. Can you tell someone recently brought him a present from Texas???

Luman & Sharon.

Sharon's cat, Libby, the night before we left. They said that everytime they get a suitcase out to go somewhere, Libby always gets in it. He didn't fail to do it this time either.

In Genoa, IL, we saw many graves of Colton's & Pratt's, who I'm a descendant of.

My grandparent's headstone.