4/15/07 The Storms Are Gone

We woke this morning to sunny skies and diminished winds. Diminished,,,,not gone.

We took our turns on the computer for awhile, we watched TV and around 2:30 Bob said, "Let's go for a ride, I can't sit here anymore." I knew how he felt so we were out the door in minutes.

We got to the end of the driveway, looked both ways, at each other and decided,,,,left. So left we went. We drove for about an hour and passed through some little towns. I mean little! Some not even having the required "four corners" to make it an official town in my eyes.

We did pass some ranches, some little businesses like "Granny's Little Produce Stand" and a church that had a special message on its lawn sign. You know the one, it gives info like the pastor's name, time of services and the such. Well this particular sign let its parishioners know that there is no excuse for not having cash or a check when the collection plate is passed. No sir, this church advertised that they have an ATM machine inside! Oh, the sights we see!

As we came back into Lumberton the big decision had to be made. Where to eat dinner! Neither one of us really had a "taste" for anything in particular so we ended up in Pizza Hut for dinner. We were the only ones there and we were thinking it was a good thing since they were evidently training a whole new staff. Our poor little waitress was just so frazzled, so afraid she was going to make a mistake. She even came back to ask if the green peppers I ordered for my personal pan pizza were to be put ON the pizza or served on the side. We were going to eat in the restaurant but it was so cold in there we couldn't stand it and changed our order to take out.

Back at our hotel we did nothing more than eat our pizzas, watch TV and play on the computer.

Bob did get into an online Texas Hold Em' tournament and ended up 213th out of 1676 players. Pretty good I think!

So that was another day in the life of these stranded, hotel bound RV'ers.