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Friends – grab the link below if you won’t get time to go thru my lengthy narration of our short trip.
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Last week on Saturday (14 Aug) we went to Iowa state fair at Des Moines and the next day to Moline. Here is how our last week’s travel was –
On Saturday morning, we left Ottumwa early at around 9 am. We went to Koustubh’s home. As you know by now, Koustubh is my friend from John Deere India currently residing at Des Moines. Koustubh lives at Ankeny with his wife Bhakti and charming little daughter Ramaa. The plan was to exchange my company car at Hertz, Ankeny; so I and Koustubh went to Hertz office and exchanged my Ford Fusion with Mazda 6. The new Mazda is a sparkling blue colored car. After enjoying the delicious lunch prepared by Bhakti, it was quite difficult to get moving soon to rush to Iowa State fair. I took a quick nap, while all rest folks enjoyed Air buddies Movie.
We started at 3.15 from Koustubh’s house and found ourselves buying state fair entry tickets at the gate at around 4.00 pm. First we went to the livestock section. We saw swines, cattle, horses, rabbits etc. Boars weighing more than 1000 pounds and bull heavier than 3000 pounds were remarkable to mention. Then we went to the agricultural building. We saw different varieties of vegetables, fruits, flowers. The funny part was big pumpkins as you will see in photos. The biggest one was 1323 pounds. Then we visited the cultural center wherein we saw photography section, painting section etc. we were really tired walking so many miles by now so we took a little break. Then we turned our feet to the varied industries and the machinery grounds. We saw the John Deere and the many other competitor company’s agricultural equipments. We, by then, being really tired and hungry, had to rush back to Koustubh’s home to enjoy the delicious Pavbhaji prepared by Bhakti’s friend Swati (Swati and family came to Koustubh’s house that day late evening)
Next day morning, we left Koustubh’s house early as we had to reach Moline to see the John Deere Pavilion and John Deere World Headquarter. But not early enough to skip our good breakfast though. (Delicious Pohe). We reached JD Pavilion almost past noon. Mom and Dad were mesmerized to see the enormous JD agricultural and construction machines. We saw the combine harvester, seeding planter, 4WD loader, baler and various JD tractors starting from 1912 to till date. My parents were even astonished to see the huge prices these machines were sold at. (One 9000 series tractor would cost more than the cost associated with buying many acres of land in India). Shailesh Ingole, my other friend from JD India who works at Harvester works in Moline joined us at the pavilion. We left pavilion at around 1.30 on the note to fill our hungry stomachs with delicious Indian buffet lunch at the great Indian restaurant. We did a brief Indian grocery shopping there and accelerated our car towards the John Deere World Headquarters. Mom and Dad were glad to see the “rusty palace” as they say to the JD headquarter building. We saw the display section filled with some more JD equipments, John Deere history and short movie about JD business worldwide. We then took a brief walk around the lake in front of the headquarter building and then drove back to Shailesh’s house. Shailesh made a nice tea for all of us before we resumed our journey back to Ottumwa to reach back home before it got dark.
Here is photo link for fellows who took interest reading the whole description….
http://picasaweb.google.com/bharat7480/MomAndDadUSTripIowaStateFairDesMoines#
http://picasaweb.google.com/bharat7480/MomAndDadUSTripMolineJDPavilionAndHeadQuarter#
Friends – grab the link below if you won’t get time to go thru my lengthy narration of our short trip.
http://picasaweb.google.com/bharat7480/MomAndDadUSTripIowaStateFairDesMoines#
http://picasaweb.google.com/bharat7480/MomAndDadUSTripMolineJDPavilionAndHeadQuarter#
Last week on Saturday (14 Aug) we went to Iowa state fair at Des Moines and the next day to Moline. Here is how our last week’s travel was –
On Saturday morning, we left Ottumwa early at around 9 am. We went to Koustubh’s home. As you know by now, Koustubh is my friend from John Deere India currently residing at Des Moines. Koustubh lives at Ankeny with his wife Bhakti and charming little daughter Ramaa. The plan was to exchange my company car at Hertz, Ankeny; so I and Koustubh went to Hertz office and exchanged my Ford Fusion with Mazda 6. The new Mazda is a sparkling blue colored car. After enjoying the delicious lunch prepared by Bhakti, it was quite difficult to get moving soon to rush to Iowa State fair. I took a quick nap, while all rest folks enjoyed Air buddies Movie.
We started at 3.15 from Koustubh’s house and found ourselves buying state fair entry tickets at the gate at around 4.00 pm. First we went to the livestock section. We saw swines, cattle, horses, rabbits etc. Boars weighing more than 1000 pounds and bull heavier than 3000 pounds were remarkable to mention. Then we went to the agricultural building. We saw different varieties of vegetables, fruits, flowers. The funny part was big pumpkins as you will see in photos. The biggest one was 1323 pounds. Then we visited the cultural center wherein we saw photography section, painting section etc. we were really tired walking so many miles by now so we took a little break. Then we turned our feet to the varied industries and the machinery grounds. We saw the John Deere and the many other competitor company’s agricultural equipments. We, by then, being really tired and hungry, had to rush back to Koustubh’s home to enjoy the delicious Pavbhaji prepared by Bhakti’s friend Swati (Swati and family came to Koustubh’s house that day late evening)
Next day morning, we left Koustubh’s house early as we had to reach Moline to see the John Deere Pavilion and John Deere World Headquarter. But not early enough to skip our good breakfast though. (Delicious Pohe). We reached JD Pavilion almost past noon. Mom and Dad were mesmerized to see the enormous JD agricultural and construction machines. We saw the combine harvester, seeding planter, 4WD loader, baler and various JD tractors starting from 1912 to till date. My parents were even astonished to see the huge prices these machines were sold at. (One 9000 series tractor would cost more than the cost associated with buying many acres of land in India). Shailesh Ingole, my other friend from JD India who works at Harvester works in Moline joined us at the pavilion. We left pavilion at around 1.30 on the note to fill our hungry stomachs with delicious Indian buffet lunch at the great Indian restaurant. We did a brief Indian grocery shopping there and accelerated our car towards the John Deere World Headquarters. Mom and Dad were glad to see the “rusty palace” as they say to the JD headquarter building. We saw the display section filled with some more JD equipments, John Deere history and short movie about JD business worldwide. We then took a brief walk around the lake in front of the headquarter building and then drove back to Shailesh’s house. Shailesh made a nice tea for all of us before we resumed our journey back to Ottumwa to reach back home before it got dark.
Here is photo link for fellows who took interest reading the whole description….
http://picasaweb.google.com/bharat7480/MomAndDadUSTripIowaStateFairDesMoines#
http://picasaweb.google.com/bharat7480/MomAndDadUSTripMolineJDPavilionAndHeadQuarter#
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Bharat
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