Bob and Debbie Conroy - Enjoying the Journey Together!

Debbie and I had a long delayed getaway weekend starting the day after Thanksgiving.  We went to Minneapolis and stayed at a nice hotel across the street from the Mall of America (MOA).  A recent story in the news reminded me that I wanted to share our MOA experiences.  Here is the excerpt from the news item: “Authorities arrested at least nine people after a “series of fights” at the nation’s biggest shopping mall sent chairs flying and caused after-Christmas shoppers to flee, officials in Minnesota said Tuesday….Witnesses described a chaotic scene.”  Reports stated that up to 200 were involved in the fighting. First of all, we did not go there to shop.   After all Black Friday is the busiest shopping day of the year and frankly there are no special shopping destinations anymore.  We live four blocks west of Jordan Creek Town Center in West Des Moines.  Within a few miles of our house, we have about one of every store and restaurant chain t (albeit ...

Here are some old blogs from the archives. A note that might help make more sense of these posts: The primary audience was my mother. She was living in Arizona and this was before she was on Facebook.  My sister Deb or Mom’s neighbors would print the posts for her to read.  Also, note that none of the links from the original posts are active. January 2005 January 1. Another New Year's Eve at the Val-Air Ballroom and, as always, a lot of fun. The same group, the Conroys, the Mays, the Burdettes, and the Robinsons did our lemming-like return to the ballroom and shuffled on the dance floor after gorging on the great food catered by Christiani’s VIP Catering Service, LTD. The featured band was “Peter Noone and Herman’s Hermits”. He is the original “Herman”. Great show! We got autographs after the show and I recommended that he change the words from “Mrs. Brown You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter” to Mrs. Greenwood You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter”! There was kind of a hush all over the ro...