Day 31

Again, rain today expected all day so we decided to stick around and “hang” with the locals… Grant took a run in the morning, and got soaked! The weather is not going to cooperate with us so we are going to do some house projects. Tabbie finished sewing her quilt, made a pumpkin pie, finished up the laundry and went for a nice walk when the weather cleared for awhile. Grant did some maintenance around the boat and replaced a few things, caught up on some reading, watched a movie in the lounge and hung out with the locals. Note to Tabbie-don’t try to communicate with Grant while he is engrossed in a movie. He is in no response mode. (Joan-I sympathize) We also got a chance to walk over to the James Whitten Lock Museum. The ground was so wet we felt like we were walking in a swamp.

The rest of the evening we spent getting ready for our anticipated early morning departure. However at about 7pm thunderstorms started rolling in along with Tornado Warnings and more pouring rain. So we are hung out in the lounge again and watched the weather channel with a lady who happens to be from Minneapolis. She wasn’t too keen on being on her boat during severe weather. We were up here using the high speed, so we got to know one another. It is a small world. Not sure if we are going to be able to leave tomorrow or not. If we don’t get going we won’t make it home for x-mas.