Des Moines trip + Ice break

Well it's that time of the year. All the deer hunters get together to look at the new hunting supplies on the market and women go along for a trip of shopping at the mall :) Gina & Louie and Rick and I went to Des Moines last weekend for that very reason. They guys uhh'ed and ahh'ed and we shopped. Of course I took along my camera. Here are some of the pictures.

Harley didn't want us to leave her for the weekend ( spoiled brat)

I had my camera out on the 2 1/2 hour trip there so I was able to get some shots on the go. Since Rick is a "New York" driver it is hurry,hurry,hurry ! No stopping along the road for pictures plus - we got deer to see.But along the way I saw these Elk.

The this awesome old style house. Sharp ! It must have been built in the turn of the century.

Old cars are always an eyecather.

Now we are at the deer show. I didn't post alot of pictures from the show itself ( we went shopping) but we did walk through the skywalk and pick Louie and Rick out in the crowd of spectators.

Now the next pictures are ones taken from the skywalk and on the way back to the room.

This is the state capitol building during the day and night. It is so beautiful at night with all the gold lite up.

I thought this one was interesting with the reflection of three building in one.

Gina took this one which is kinda neat. She was able to catch this man in the mirror.( can you tell we are dull people to sit or walk around taking pictures of the strangest things.

This is a night shot taken through a double pane window. I had to use the tripod and slow the shutter down in order to get the trailing effects of the tailights and headlights.

That's enough Des Moines- let's look at some pictures of the ice break. Notice how thick the ice

is, the snow mobile tracks on the broken ice and the geese swimming in the open water.

These last pictures are taken from an old iron bridge that is now closed for cars but has a foot bridge that goes out over the river. It leads from Betensport to an old town called Vernon. I also found this photographer shop in Betensport.

Now for my one poser that I always seem to get a picture of :) Not that he really likes it.