Hartville, Ohio (6/19/2015)

We survived last night's storms with no big problems.  David had left the windows down on their car when he went up to the laundry, and he got soaked when he ran out to roll them up, and the car seats got pretty wet before he got them up since the rain came down very quickly and very hard.  But otherwise, we all fared well, and I don't think it stormed any more after we had gone to bed.  We did see some trees down in town this morning that were being cleaned up.

We had an easier day today.  Dave and Mazie had to move from their campsite just across the road, because their spot was reserved for tonight.  But they got that done first thing, so that was no big deal.

We first went into Hartville to the big Flea Market.  There were tables set up outside (they got a late start because of last night's rain), and inside was basically new merchandise and food -- baked items, meats and cheeses, jellies, jams, honey, etc. and some antiques upstairs.  There was one area of furniture which we assumed to be Amish-made.  We picked up a couple of things outside, and then hit the produce row outside before we left where we restocked on fresh fruit and vegetables.

 From there, we drove across the parking lot to the Amish restaurant, which was another huge building, also with a bakery, meat shop, gift shop.  It wasn't a typical Amish place though, the food was served restaurant-style rather than family-style, and a lot of the merchandise seemed to me to be what you see at other gift shops. They did have a piece of art on the wall that Mazie and I liked.  She does some painting, so she thinks we could do one like this.

Next door to this building was the huge hardware store we had heard about, so we, of course, had to walk through it.  And it was large (over 6 acres under roof).  In addition to normal hardware and building supplies, there were model rooms (kitchen, laundry room, bathroom, bedroom, etc.) for you to walk through for ideas. 

We headed back to camp about 2:30, but the guys made a detour down to the hangar for the Goodyear blimp.  Inside the hangar there, they are building a new blimp.  They got to see them untether the blimp, take-off, circle the area, and land it -- they did that 3 times while they were there.  They assumed they were doing some pilot training.  Joe took some pictures on his cell phone, but we haven't gotten them downloaded yet.  We had seen two blimps in the air our first night here when we went back to town to eat dinner.

Eventually, we all made it home.  Joe did a little maintenance on the car and RV, getting ready to move on tomorrow.  Then we started looking for our next campground.  Mazie came over, and eventually Collins and Marilyn came down, and we finally decided on a state park just east of Cleveland.  Since it's the weekend, some of the places Collins had called were already full, but the state park said they had availability, so we had a plan.

After we all had our separate dinners, we played cards for a while.  Mazie came over to watch (and keep score), but David decided to stay home with the dog.  The weather was nice all day, cloudy and relatively cool, but no rain.  So we are off to Cleveland tomorrow.