Day 4

Another dreary day… Both Tabitha and I are sick with a cold. We stayed in La Crosse today to see Katrina (Tabitha’s friend from High School) and Dan and Kelly (Grant’s cousins). Had a nice lunch with Katrina and went back to her new house for a tour – nice job on the fix up! We have been having difficulty getting our Internet to work on the boat so Grant downloaded some software to hopefully solve the problem… Dan and Kelly picked us up at the boat around 6:30 and we went to dinner at John’s Bar… Original… We get in and questioned our safety, but after we found the restaurant (which consisted of a basement room with concrete floors, three tables, a dart board, and pool table) we were even more frightened!! We toughed it out, had a couple pitchers of beer, and a surprisingly very good meal… Leave it to Dan, the night is not over after a couple pitchers – the next bar had all you can drink for $3.50!! Got to love the smaller towns! The best part is the name of the bar was “The Library” where many college students go on weekends… If any of you are parents out there with kids at UW-La Crosse, be warned, when they say they are going to “The Library” on Friday night, it will likely involve martini menus rather than textbooks, and only domestic beer flows out of the “bubbler”…. Got back to the boat around 10:30, and notice a houseboat for sale in a slip down the dock from us. Candace mentioned she was looking for one, we got her the number (608-468-3825). Settled down for the night. We are going to try and get to Prairie Du Chien tomorrow…

Houseboat for Sale (Candace)