Memorial Day (Mon.)

We had done so much celebrating the last two days we were happy not to have any big plans for today.  Dixie and Jim were leaving today and I was surprised to see Dixie at the kitchen window (washing it, of all things) before 9:00 a.m.  I have a birds' eye view of the kitchen window from our dinette in the RV.  Dixie had lots of bug bites from these nasty buffalo gnats around here and that had kept her awake so she had just gotten up.  She had laundry underway and was gathering up things so Jim could load the car.  To everyone's surprise, they pulled out before noon.

So Joe and Joe decided we should go to town for something to eat (breakfast/lunch?  It's noon by now), and since they hadn't been able to find a decent breakfast in Vincennes, they thought we should try Princeton.  Lucille was agreeable to this, so off we went.  The first 2 restaurants to had in mind were closed (one permanently, the second one just for the day we think).  We finally landed at Applebees, and then Cathy persuaded Joe to stop at my Finders Keepers store which was basically across the street.  We put Lucille in a wheel chair and walked the 4 aisles, but she was really thinking we were taking her to a "dry goods" store where she mind find a new blouse, so she complained a bit.  No one bought anything but we did check out the rocking horse again.  It seemed to be missing the post that goes through the head to hang on to, and it was plastic (I think Cathy had one like it when she was little but it was made out of wood), so no rocking horse for Shooter.

We "headed" home but made a couple stops and side trips still searching for fresh strawberries.  Our 20-mile ride to "breakfast" took 4 hours.  Joe was still willing to head up to Oaktown where rumor has it that fresh strawberries are maybe available, but since Cathy and Joe still had to drive to Bloomington today, Joe finally took us home. 

As Joe and Cathy were getting in their car to leave, Mike, Rachelle and the kids stopped by, back from their weekend camping trip.  We visited with them for a little while and after they left, Lucille headed to her chair for a nap, and Joe and I went to town for our last Bobe's Pizza of this trip (Lucille was pizzaed'out).  A thunderstorm blew through just as we got home, with some pretty heavy rain and lots of strong wind.  That lasted maybe 45 minutes, but it blew on out before we went to bed and didn't damage anything that we've seen.  I think the worst of it was further north.

We had originally planned to leave tomorrow, but I suggested to Joe that we wait until Wednesday so I would have Tuesday to get my stuff done after today's exodus by the others -- laundry, groceries, vacuuming the RV, etc.  So tomorrow will be my work/errand day, and Wednesday we intend to hit the road.  We've finally decided what day we are leaving, but haven't finalized our route yet.