Monday Monday

The "party's over" .... the fair ended at 10:00 last night.  The stuffed animals (photo below) are all bagged up and ready to head to Rapid City (I guess).  It was amazing to us, as we walked through and around the area about 11:00 last night, what a buzz of activity it was.  It seemed like the "break down" was much much quicker than the set up for sure - what took days and days and days to set up seemed to be disassembled in a matter of hours.  Arlo and I haven't walked down to the midway area yet but I suspect that it is all gone and a huge mess is left.  All the outside vendors have left and the ride people are still here, although the "campground host" tells me they won't all be gone for another week.  After they all leave we can move back to a sewer site but we may not be here then.  We were scheduled to leave yesterday but decided to stay another week so we shall see.  Rick and I are both getting anxious to get back on the road, as much as we have loved being in Sioux Falls (except the library card foolishness) we're ready to hit the road again.

Today is going to be a "catch up" day, although I have an eye doctor appointment this morning.  The rest of the day will be spent cleaning this joint up and getting back to "normal".  For whatever reason the coach looks like a time bomb exploded in here ~ I guess the ticket work slowed down our house keeping ability or something!  Plus we are having our Sioux Falls friends over tonight for cocktails (unless it rains and the place turns into a mud wrestling arena).  They are leaving Wednesday for North Carolina and we won't see them again until we return to Sioux Falls ~ who knows when that will be ~ hopefully sometime next summer but we couldn't possibly plan that far ahead!

Speaking of North Carolina, my Marine and family got there last Thursday.  I guess they really pushed to travel across the country.  I thought they were going to have a slow, leisurely trip but I thought wrong!  They are looking for housing at the moment as they've been in motels for a couple weeks and are anxious to get settled and back to a routine.  I guess there is a base housing unit that will be available tomorrow and they were also looking at places off base.  We shall see ... Joshua did say they are both very happy to be back in North Carolina, as much as they loved California, they're glad to be back on the other coast.