I Sure Got My History Last Week-- Part 1: Our 45th Wedding Anniversary

And, I can never get too much history as you might guess.  The more the better.

Last week, August 22 to August 28, Liz and I went out to the Mississippi River to Galena, Illinois, and Dubuque, Iowa, to celebrate our 45th wedding anniversary, and that is some history right there.  We went to Galena or our honeymoon and visited Dubuque back in 1973.

The motel we stayed in, the Palace, an old mom-and-pop motel, no longer stands, but there is still one of those mom-and-pop motels in Galena called Grant Hills Motel and we stayed there for four nights.  A highlight for us was eating dinner at The Log Cabin Steakhouse in Galena which is where we ate the day after we got married.  Other than the prices, that place has not changed a bit since then.

--DaCoot

Our 42nd Anniversary Today

Forty-two years ago today, I woke up in the apartment in Des Plaines, Illinois, and drove to DeKalb, Illinois, where Liz and I were married at the Newman Center on the campus of Northern Illinois University.  We then had our reception at the Holiday Inn (now Red Roof Inn) on Lincoln Highway (Ill-38).

We drove out to Galena, Illinois, for our honeymoon.  We stayed at the old Palace Motel, a mom and pop place, on US-20 north of town.  It was torn down and is now a Ramada Inn.

We had planned on staying five days, buy that was cut short as I signed my teaching contract on August 24th.