Awake: 7:54am Temp 54 sleep 8+00 sunny overnight @ Nicktown, PA.
Today is the busiest & most populated day each year in Nicktown; it’s Homecoming Festival day. Corinne arrives @ our motorhome @ 10:10 am. About (10) min later, Melissa calls: they are running late & will look for us in the dinner lineup.
Kathy, Corinne, & I walk over to the picnic grounds; the parking area for autos is already full & the dinner line is wrapped around the (4) corners of the booth building & starting to climb the hill. That’s a good sign really. (30) min later, the Foote family + Kevin’s newly married sister, Billie Anne, & her husband, Jason, join us in line. About (15) min after that, my brother, Don, joins us in line; he is concerned about his wife, Josie; turns out she had trouble finding a parking spot & had to walk quite a distance to join us just before our being admitted into the dinning room. That was a close call.
The chicken dinner with soup, mashed potatoes, gravy, coleslaw, garden fresh tomatoes & cucumbers, homemade rolls & a variety of home baked pies for dessert was most delicious. Matthew & Andrew were quite content to stay in their seats, though they did not eat very much of the food.
The remainder of the afternoon & evening was consumed with meeting & talking with people (friends, cousins, out-of-towners, neighbors, etc) whom I haven’t seen for a long time or since last year’s picnic or maybe since yesterday. And the beer tent was packed & noisy; also the good Father was casually monitoring the area from time to time.
Kathy tells me she spent some time with the Footes & with the boys in the kids’ tent; Matthew & Andrew mostly enjoyed “digging for dinosaurs.” She also played bingo at Andrea’s behest, the first time Kathy’s played bingo in about 18 years and she won $3.00. Kathy, too, spent time walking and talking with people; ah, she’s learning the ways of small town excitement!
This picnic is a big fund raiser for the Nicktown Catholic Church & Catholic elementary school. From all evidence, with the large crowd of visitors & over 1840 dinners served, plus the packed beer tent & other games, raffles, etc, etc, + such a beautiful day, we felt we had a very good homecoming picnic. (9:00 pm) fireworks topped off the event with bangs of streaming colors. It was a great day. K & I return to our bus @ 9:35pm.
High temp=73 Lights out: 11:18pm
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