Cute and Clueless

No, not me...(cute yeah) Clueless, I'm talking about Lady. Where's Randy when we need him. This park has two wonderful doggie parks..the sad part is poor Lady doesn't know what to do off her leash. I've been taking her there to play but I was doing more playing than she was. She sees me getting to far away and then she follows me. She did better this afternoon but after about 5 minutes she walks over to the door ready to leave. Oh well, she's still so adorable on her leash or off.

travel day

Our week of visiting with friends ended today. We had a great rally and fun seeing friends but the party started breakin up on Sat and Sun. Several people left over the weekend to get to their next stop. We want see some of these people again for a while, could be a yr or longer depending on where everyone will be next summer. So there were lots of hugs before we left this morning. Some people did leave before they got their hugs on Sunday though. Earlier risers.
We were only going a little ways today cause we wanted to get our rig's oil changed and since we had three days to spare we thought this was a good time to try and get it done. Reid found a place in Fort Wayne and called them. They said to be there between 9 and 10 and we arrived about 9:30 and we sat for over an hour before anyone started working on our rig..There were workers there but no one was doing anything. A couple of tow trucks came in and we found out that the tow truck driver out on call also did the oil changes. After an hour or so of waiting they finally started on it. I'm glad it was a cool day and I had a book to read.
We arrived at our park about 3 and just chilled. We'll be here till Thurs so we're going to take it easy.

Rally week

This had been a fun week at the rally. We've sat around the fire pit at night all week. Yes, some nights with a fire and some nights without one. Still don't get needing a fire when it's 80 plus degrees but some people just love looking at a fire..I will give Bob credit. His fires are more flame and not smokey..I'm allergic to smoke and if it had been smoky I couldn't have stayed out and enjoyed the "bonding" time but I was far enough from the fire that I didn't feel the heat and could sit out and enjoy.
Thur night we did pot luck and there was plenty of food. We had leftovers stuffed in everyones fridges. We didn't have a meal planned for Friday only ice cream social so we decided to have a "Must Go" meal on Friday afternoon. Must go means if it's not eaten it's tossed and by the time we were all done eating there was very little left over. We ate all this about 4 and then 7 was Ice Cream social, we managed to eat the ice cream before it melted but we were all saying..why are we eating again.
The rally offically ended Friday but most people are staying till Sunday before getting on the road. Today has been a down day for everyone. It's raining. Not storms just showers lasting all day. It's suspose to move out tonight and be nice for the next several days. We're staying till Thurs before heading over to our membership park in Batesville, IN. We plan on using the next few days to just veggie out.

Flea Market and Das Essenhaus

We've had a wonderful week so far at the rally. We have 14 rigs here and 4 of them are first time ralliers so it's been fun meeting and getting to know all of them. We've had cook outs, campfires and lots of food to eat. Today was Flea market day so we headed over there about 10ish. Wilma rode with us and we had a great time. I really like the flea market. They usually have cocker spaniel stuff so Lady got a new tag for her collar, a pillow to lay her head on and we got a statue for outside. We actually didn't see it when we were there but Nancy and Bob did and they told me about it so she and I headed back over to check it out. It's cute. Nancy also found a booth that had homemade doggie treats and spoiled Lady yet again.
Tonight we headed over to Das Essenhaus with 30 or so of our Everest friends. Noone should ever go home hungry from there. It's served family style with bowls and bowls of food. Love it. Everyone had a good time. We're doing a crockpot breakfast in the morning and then pot luck tomorrow night...see food, food and food.

OOOPS

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I should listen better when Danny talks...Yesterday and today Danny is involved in classes at his college as prep for student teaching to begin on Wed. When he told me he started Monday I just "assumed" he meant with the kids. I was wrong so just to clear that up: Am I still excited for him: You Bet, Am I still proud of him: Oh yeah.. When does he start "Student Teaching: WED. Does he need his Mom to listen better: Yes

Yes, Mr. Rucker

I just have to say I'm so excited for Danny. That's my son (sorry, our son) if anyone doesn't know. Today starts the beginning of the end of a long college process. Today is his first day of "Student Teaching". He's working with FIRST GRADERS for a few weeks and then he'll move to another grade. I can imagine the class room now..scared, tear stained little faces looking up at him wonder what's the giant in the room for. (he's 6 ft. tall) He'll do great though cause he's been working with kids for years and after today they'll all love him. he's great with them. Good luck Danny and we're proud that you hung in there.

Shipshewana, IN

Our travels had us leaving OH today and heading west to IN. We're in Shipshewana for the week at our annual Everest Rally. We missed last yrs rally so I've been excited about the one this yr. We've had this trip planned since last Aug. We have about 15 rigs scheduled to attend this yr and several arrived yesterday. When we arrived guess who was checking in. W&G. Wilma and I got a quick hug in before we had to move rigs and get out of the other rv'ers way but we'll have plenty of time to talk and visit this week. Everyones is getting set up and getting ready for a fun week.
Reid was getting stuff set up outside and I've been busy with inside stuff. Reid came in from the outside and I was on the phone. He realized I was talking to Nancy and he thinks thats so funny cause she's parked right next door to me. Nancy and I were trying to explain to him that we're busy getting each place set up for living this week and it's cooler inside so it just makes sense (to Nancy and me) to just say what we need to say in a quick phone call. what's funny about that.
This will probally be the fastest week of the summer cause we all have so much fun and stay so busy. It's just so nice to get together with old friends and met new ones at the rallys.