Breakfast, at last. We had a great omelet (egg substitute, of course) this morning before church and it tasted so good. While driving to church, we saw another church celebrating Father’s Day with several large (on wheels) grills, outside tents, and an outdoor stage with live music. People were parking and walking a half mile to visit the church! We attended the Goshen First Baptist Church after finally finding its location on the internet; they had power outages and the air conditioner was not working, so the service we attended was abbreviated. It was a good service though, and the message on thanking and appreciating fathers was quite good. After the service we drove around the area looking for the Jayco plant, and found it in Middlebury, IN, less than 15 miles from our campground. Our motorhome will be visiting there next week to repair the water pump.
Other rally attendees began rolling in to the campground after lunch. Richard and Virginia, our tail gunners on the Alaska and Yukon caravan last year, were the first, followed by Les and Jean, our wagon master from the same caravan. Les and Jean had just purchased a Tiffin Allegro Bay FRED that is very nice. Ted and Karen from last year’s caravan also drove in this afternoon, as did other attendees we did not know. This is going to be a good rally.
Kay prepared a great dinner of fish, salad, and grilled squash and zucchini. After dinner, we sat outside under the awning, visiting with walkers passing by.
Kay’s Take: When our leaders arrived, we moved our coach from the outside parking area to the green area for large rallies. This area had just been vacated by a national deaf rally. We quickly set up again and Donald put out our awning. We sat in our chairs outside and enjoyed the cool afternoon breezes. We visited with Wes, Jean’s brother, who is a big hunter and fisherman. He’s a funny guy and we enjoyed visiting with him. Donald’s new grill, the O-grill got it’s first workout and it performed beautifully! The countryside here is dotted with large, clean, & neat farms. Everyone has flower gardens and they are beautiful. There’s a large contingent of Amish and their buggies are very evident in town, on the highways, and even at McDonald’s!