Wednesday, August 4 - We woke up to sunshine this morning, but it changed to clouds and sprinkles pretty quickly. About 8:00 p.m., we saw the sun again. For some reason, any sun we see is usually after 7:00 p.m. We had a girl's/boy's day today. The girls went to Wasilla (about 10 miles from where we are camped) to try to get hair cuts at the Walmart beauty shop. In fact, I had decided I might try a perm since every day is a bad hair day. But they only had one operator, and after waiting for 2 hours while she was still working on the same person(*!), we finally gave up on that and went back out to the Iditarod headquarters so Marilyn could see it. Then we found Lucille Park and Lucille Campground and checked it out. We grabbed some lunch, hit the farmer's market where the vegetables were way too pricey to buy, got ice cream cones from McDonalds, and headed back to camp.
The guys, minus Mr. Clean who stayed at camp to do laundry and wash his truck, went the other way first. Since Collins had missed yesterday's drive (he's been nursing a sore shoulder for a couple weeks, and he can barely throw out the cards during our nightly card game, and certainly no fishing!), Joe took Collins back to the mine we had visited yesterday because that was such a pretty drive. After their lunch stop, they headed to Wasilla, following some of the same stops we had made. Joe had the camera, so here's his picture of Lucille Lake Park and Lake.
Unfortunately, those two always find ways to make things difficult, and Joe's photography skills seems to have deteriorated today. Here's his attempts at a picture of the two of them.
What can I say, it was a slow day for blog photos.
Finally, success. Aren't they a pair!!!
This is a pretty lake, with a few float planes parked around it. There is also a campground here.
On the far side of the lake are residences, including Sarah Palin's. Here is her house.
We all eventually got back together, probably around 5:00. I had an hour of so by myself in the RV, a rare treat. But then Marilyn came over and said she had just discovered that she was missing two bags of groceries from our Walmart visit, so she had to make a run back to Wasilla. Sure enough, it was still right there, waiting for her to pick it up, six hours later, and it was almost all refrigerator-stuff. She politely thanked them for holding it for her but told them she thought she would just go pick up new replacements since all that had gotten a little warm.
Finally, we all got dinner over and got together for our nightly (almost nightly, maybe) card game. After that exciting couple of hours, Marilyn and I took a short walk around the campground and watched the fog roll in. Tomorrow, we are moving on, to somewhere. Joe thinks 40 miles is enough of a goal, but I'm pushing for a little further than that!
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