Great Day at Charlie Brown

July 25 – 5 months til Christmas!  I think we all need a reminder that we’re on the down slope of the year!

I thought we would sleep later than we did but I was up at 8 and Bill wasn’t long after.  I made his Sunday breakfast on Monday and he was excited to have blueberry scones, bacon, soft boiled egg and some nice fruit.

We kinda laid around and he watched some TV.  I finally put an additional latch on the malfunctioning bedroom sink cabinet door.  Works really well now.

Chis, Pam and Steve’s son, stopped by and visited for a while before getting to work.  It was nice of him and good to see him.  We feel very welcomed even though we are just for a couple of nights.

Bill wanted to go to the Vanilla Bean Café for lunch as it was a favorite 2 years ago.  We headed over and the bridge was closed and we were detoured and then were just left dead in the water.  Finally had to get the Google Maps to get us there.  Lunch was good (but pricy) and we enjoyed it.  Then leaving we came to the other side of the closed bridge and were detoured in the other direction.  Luckily it brought out on the main road so we weren’t lost again.  We stopped at our favorite ice cream place but they no longer sell hand dipped ice cream, just prepackaged stuff.  So we went to our second favorite place and Bill got coffee with oreos and cookie dough and I got a coffee and coconut. Hard to pick a favorite!  We met a girl there visiting relatives here who is from Jacksonville.  Bill had a nice chat with her about Florida and Florida State.

Time to head back to the RV where I worked on my journal, banking and washed a load of laundry.  Bill read for a bit then went to lie down.  At 4:45 I went up to the office and sat on the porch with Pam and Roxann and had a nice glass of wine.  Steve got showered and joined us and we discussed dinner plans etc.  At 6:15 I walked home to get Bill and there he was, dressed and ready but hadn’t called me.  So we drove up to the office and let Pam and Steve drive.  I took a small carrot cake I had in the freezer with some cream cheese frosting for dessert.  We had dinner at the Midway which is Greek and Italian.  I had Souvlaki and Bill went with a calzone.  Pam had a huge steak salad and Steve had steak.  Bill was the only one to have leftovers as his calzone was huge!  It was very good and we had intended to buy them dinner but Steve told the waitress before we even sat down that he was to get the check.  Sneaky!  We really appreciated it but wanted to take them out for allowing us to camp for free for 2 nights.

When we got back we sat on the porch and had our cake that everyone enjoyed.  I left Steve the last little piece!  We talked a lot about RV’s since they bought one earlier this year and plan to start doing some travel in their off season.  She used to drive a school bus so she was not the least bit afraid to drive it.  Their son has an RV repair shop so they have good back-up!

Time to call it a day as we head on closer to Boston tomorrow.