Auction

We spent last weekend going to an auction in Solon, IA. It is about an hour away and was a pretty drive. Tyson was looking for some wood working tools and he thought Lilly would enjoy a short auction. When we got there I realized that I didn’t dress Lilly appropriately since it was at a farm and there was cow poop everywhere. Lilly was wearing sandals and shorts. There was also no place for me to sit which is a necessarily this far along in my pregnancy and Lilly was scared to use the stinky bathrooms. To top it off the short auction ended up being a LONG auction. After spending about an hour hanging out in the car with Lilly, I decided to drive to Iowa City and get her some better shoes so she could enjoy looking at the animals on the farm.  

Iowa City was about 30 min away but it was still worth the trip. We used the potty in Walmart and got her some socks and cheap sandals. I was going to get her rain boots but they didn’t have her size. Lilly was so excited that the socks were for her and not for baby Bennett. We also got some lunch and drove around their awesome mall. The mall had a children’s museum, skating rink, movie theaters, shopping, and full size carousel. You could spend a whole day there doing all of the activities.

When we got back to the auction I put Lilly’s new socks and sandals on. She thought they were so cute and stylish she still wouldn’t walk on the ground with them. She was afraid they would get dirty. She now thinks that it is quite fashionable to wear socks with sandals. Lilly had to enjoy the chickens and cows from afar because she wouldn’t walk around.

Several of the trailers were cleared off when I got back so there were places for us to sit and we enjoyed the rest of the auction. Tyson got 2 tool items he needed and I got an old fashioned trunk for $10. They weren’t going to get to the trunk until later in the auction so I played the pregnancy card and told them I couldn’t stand for much longer and asked them to do the trunk next. Then I was so confused by the way the auctioneer talked and I didn’t even know they were selling it and almost lost it. But they had my back and told me to raise my hand.  The trunk is storing our sheets nicely in the closet. It will be perfect for a teenage boy’s room.

On the way home from the auction we stopped by Lake Mcbride State Park to see what it was like. It was a nice state park that had a camping area and a lake people could swim in. The lake even had a nice beach area. We decided that it was worth going back to the lake and Iowa City for a small weekend trip. There was plenty to do there.

After we got home Tyson told Lilly that they could sleep out in the tent that night and eat candy. I don’t think Tyson understood what he was getting himself into. Lilly stayed up until 10:30 and woke up at 5:30. Then guess who had to take care of her once she was awake – me. It ended up being a two nap Sunday and hard day at church. She is not going camping with daddy again until she is older.

It was another fun weekend for the Iowa Harris Family.