Wednesday, September 17, 2008

A little visit from IKE

Well, we had a "little" visit from Ike.
Saturday afternoon the Tolsons and us attended a show called "Six". This was amazing. It was six brothers from a family of 10 boys. Yes, I said 10 boys. They were very good and did a wonderful job of singing with NO instruments but you would have thought there was a full orchestra. Several of our group had attended and insisted that we see the show. Again we met for dinner and then attended the Mickey Gilly show at 8 pm and really had a great time there. Joey Riley was a comedian on Mickey's show and he was FUNNY.
We really did not see a BAD show in Branson we just liked some much better than others.
When we left the theater it was raining and then it got harder and then it got even harder about 2 am and the wind came with it. The actual eye of IKE came right over us. Finally about 6 am it was done. Larry and I had decided to wait and see what was what on Sunday morning before making the decision to travel or not. The campground had lots of limbs and debris around but nothing of any major proportion and no damage was done to any of the motorhomes or other camping units that we saw so we were much luckier than the people in Texas.We left the campground around 9:30 a.m. and even though we had some wind it was not a bad travel day. The storm was ahead of us so we just took our time. Spent the night in Effingham, Illinois and met several other Discovery Coaches that had been to a rally in Indiana.
After a good night sleep we were ready to tackle another day and arrived in Indianapolis at Ally's house around 11:30 a m. Of course we have not stopped since. The children keep us moving and wanting our undivided attention. Noah is in 1st grade so he is gone most of the day but when he gets home he wants to be right under us. I also helped him with his homework so that took some time and lots of patience. He and Kate are sleeping in the motorhome with us tonight. It will be an early morning getting him up and ready for school but he loves to be in this motorhome..

We will leave later in the morning to travel back to Virginia and get ready for the next trip .

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