Around St. Thomas (7/3/2015)

Today we had a few errands in town to take care of, so while Marilyn headed out for another day with her friend Nyla, Collins had a down day and took a long nap, Joe, Dave, Mazie and I headed into town.  We found a bank and got some Canadian money, then went to the library to try to upload the chip that Mazie bought for the GPs while I tried to get some of my blog pages finished.  But we were both unsuccessful.  The chip Mazie purchased was just an update of the maps she already had on the GPS for which she had lifetime updates, so she needs to try to return that.  And the internet service was so slow there that I was only able to upload about 10 photos in the hour plus that we were there.  We gave up on that and headed back to main street where we found a barber for Joe and David.  Mazie and I went into a shop across the street, and they guys showed up in about 10 minutes -- fastest haircuts they had ever gotten.  We left there and went to a produce market and picked up a few things, then headed back to camp.  Most of us tried to get in a little nap before we met up with the other group for dinner.

Dinner was at Buccaneers, fish (perch for most of us, Collins had pickerel which is the same as walleye).  We had a fun dinner with great company.

This restaurant is right on the beach at Port Stanley, on Lake Erie, so we walked down the little boardwalk for the view.

There are murals on a lot of buildings back in St. Thomas, and there was one here on the side of a building.

Then Earl decided we needed to taste the orangeade here at this other little shop (memories of his youth), so we got a few cups of that to share.  They actually make it fresh from the whole orange, including the rind.

But the evening was not yet over.  It became sort of a "progressive dinner" with another stop at Shaw's ice cream shop, where everyone except David indulged in an ice cream cone, even though none of us was hungry.

We finally said our goodbyes to Nyla and Earl and headed back to the RV.  The campground here had fireworks so we got our lawnchairs out and took in another set of fireworks, which were pretty good.

The weather was beautiful today, although it got a bit chilly last night.  When I woke up at 7:00, it was 55 degrees outside, and we didn't have the heat on so I guess in was 55 degrees inside also.  So I turned the furnace on and went back to bed for another hour and a half!