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Dinner Outing

3/26/16 Laura is a friend that I went to college with at ISU. She was on the rodeo team and was a barrel racer too. We had many road trips to rodeos together. Over the years I have gotten together with her for lunch in Des Moines, taken baby photos of her children, and Mark and I have gone out to dinner with her and her husband Tanner. We figured it has been 5 years since we have gotten together. How time gets away! Tonight we planned an outing with them and Mark’s friend Scott and wife Linda, who we discovered know one another. Laura wanted to meet at the Latin King Italian restaurant in Des Moines. We had never been and it turned out to be a neat place. Another couple was also invited and a surprise to us. They were a young couple that Laura is friends with. He also is a farmer that Mark knows of and doesn’t think too highly of. We all had a nice time and good conversation. It was a long wait for our table and lots of wine and alcohol was flowing. Not for me, but the others kept getting refills. After the food came and more drinks, our extra couple, the husband's foul mouth came out loud and clear, I was embarrassed. Some of the things that came out of his mouth made me want to crawl in a hole. It was pretty bad. He also was very boastful of his new lake house and etc. Etc. It was very eye opening in the conversations, tomorrow being Easter, they talked about having to go to church and that was so inconvenient.  I love Laura as a good college friend, but by the end of the night I could not wait to leave. It made me really appreciate the friends we have that share the same values.

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