Awake: 5:46am Temp 45 sleep 7+08 sunny overnight @ Boothbay, Maine.
Casual morning for us: reading the newspaper; working on the daily x-word
puzzle, etc.
@ 10:30am our chartered bus takes us downtown Boothbay for shopping or
should I say, takes the ladies for shopping & us guys along to carry the
packages. For the small size this Boothbay town is, there are quite a few
stores to browse through. Kathy & Grace get right with the program while
Gary & I stand outside in the sun & talk. This kind of stuff is much too
dull for us go getters so we agree on meeting the girls later @ a certain
place & time. Then Gary & I walk across the foot bridge which unites the
two sides of the town & we are now on the East side of the harbor. I talk
Gary into touring the inside of the Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic
Church. I was intrigued about this church on Sunday & wanted to show him.
It’s a very old & eloquent church & strictly an upstairs “summer only”
church. The walls are merely 4 inches thick with no insulation. Next week,
the upstairs part will be closed for winter & Mass will be held in the
small chapel in the basement. As a matter of fact, the tourist season &
summer dwellers are leaving town as we speak so most of the shops in town
will also be shut down during the winter.
We cross back over the foot bridge, meet up with the girls, have lunch @
the Ebb Tide restaurant & then catch our chartered bus back to our
campground. By the way, Kathy bought nothing & Grace purchased a package
of blueberry pancake mix & blueberry syrup.
During our time away, the techs: Mark & Jimmy did some fixing on a few of
the motor homes’ glitches. This is a bonus feature about a rally with
Newell & some other motorhome manufactures as well: you send them a list
of what needs to be fixed before the rally & they do their best to fix
them up during the rally….no charge for labor or small parts.
Kathy & I sign up @ the campground office for 2 additional days after the
rally is over & Grace & Gary join us in extending their stay as well.
@ 5:00pm we join the gang @ the campground clubhouse for the traditional
social hr & @ 6:00, we board the chartered bus that takes all of us to
downtown Boothbay for dinner @ Gray’s Wharf for baked clams, corn on the
cob, baked potatoes & a lobster bake. It was really delicious & messy. We
are bussed back to our campground by 8:30pm.
Today’s high=65 Lights out: 11:00pm
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