Pella, Iowa; AKA Dutch country

This past week Rob was here and on Saturday we decided to take a short little trip to Pella, Iowa. It is about 45 minutes East of Des Moines, so I could handle this type of roadtrip (I hate roadtrips...)

Rob lived in Holland for the first 8 years of his life and so Pella was somewhere that we were looking foward to seeing. This little town is committed to keeping close ties with dutch heritage. Downtown is really cute with red-brick roads, a canal, gorgeous flowers everywhere, and dutch style buildings. It also has the nation's largest working windmill. We had a lovely (greek) lunch, looked at the dutch shops, bakeries, and meat markets. And, suprisingly, we had a lot of fun.
Rob was just happy that he found some dutch mayonaise:)





And my sweetheart was sweet enough to let me practice scanning on him. It is funny to look at this picture because almost all the ultrasound pictures you see couples post are either of the baby or of the mom getting the scan. I think it is funny to have the guy getting the scan. You just don't see pictures of it on peoples blogs... that's why Rob and I are just so cool. One day I scanned his abdominal aorta and in this picture we are looking at his liver. super fun!