More soccer & Jody & Renato come to visit

                                                                     Up she goes!

                                             Rushing in to block a shot, who's afraid to get hit?

 

 Looking where she wants the ball to go.

Jody & Renato came up for Memorial Day and to catch a soccer game.  We are all very proud of Devyn.

Renato & Randy love to BBQ.

Not the best cell phone picture but you get the idea, Chris & Amy came over with Caleb & Syd.

Jody & Renato (and Bertha) as they were ready to head back to Georgia.

Onsted Wildcats vs Columbia Central Eagles

                                                  The team, #13 is our favorite player!

                                                                 Digging for the ball.

                                                                  Close up action,

                                                                             BIG hair!

                                                                  Mixing it up.
                                Final score, Columbia Central 4, Onsted 0.  In my mind Devyn won!

In Randy's Onsted pasture

It was a short travel day, less than 120 miles to our summer home.

And look.....we have new neighbors!

Aren't hey cute?  Wonder how they will taste?

One likes to enter the front pasture inside the fence next to us and just look at our home.

Escapade ends

Judy, Glunda, John, Pat & Harry.  We are waiting for the evenings gift give-aways and entertainment.

The crowd, there were 547 RVs here and over 1,000 people for the 54th Escapade.

Ham-O-Rama, this is fellow RVers who have a talent of some sort and entertain the rest of us.  Some are great and some need tomatoes thrown at them.. many are quite surprisingly good!

After the closing ceremonies this afternoon several of us HitchHiker's went out for one more meal and fellowship.

And this is the exit road, we watched 2 or 3 RV's depart today with no problems, it's suppose to rain tonight so it could be worse for  the remaining 80 or 90 RVs.

Rain rain rain now cold cold cold

Well, what do you think the chances are that we will be able to get out of here?  Poor at best huh?  The one motorhome that tried today needed a tow truck just like the one yesterday.  We are being told to stay put. The fairgrounds will give us a free night Saturday to allow the ground to dry (assuming the rain stops!). There has been some gravel put on the road inside the track (all we have to do is GET to it!).  We had planned to leave tomorrow afternoon to get to Randy's pasture and attend Devyn's soccer game Saturday morning. Our plan now is to drive the truck only to Onsted early Saturday morning to watch the game then return here and tow out Sunday, weather permitting.

As you can see it is also cold and wet now, at 4:15 it is 42 degrees and tonight's forecast is 33 degrees.  I think this is the last spring rally in the north we will attend.  Make that this is the last spring rally in the north we will attend.
We will trek over to the evenings entertainment (Ham-O-Rama) and tomorrows afternoon's closing ceremony and one more seminar in the morning.

Escapade activities

                                                             Judy and Glynda relaxing.

                                    The stage and some opening activities as the attendees arrive.

The evenings entertainment, Johnny Counterfeit.  He does voice impersonations....singers, entertainers, politicians, etc.  We all had a good laugh.

This presenter discussed RVers and investing.  He's a lawyer and financial planner that is the Escapees counsel.  He's wearing the only suit I've expect to see here.

This is Nick Russell presenting his The Frugal RVer.  We have seen him at several rallies, including his own.

 After today's rallies activities Judy and I went out for supper.  We stopped at Jo Jo's Pretzels first.

                                After Jo Jo's we went to Penguin Point for burgers, we will not return.

Escapade

We made the 30 mile trip to the Goshen and the Elkhart County Fairgrounds with John & Glynda following us.  We are parked in the infield of the horse track so we can watch the horses and sulkies practicing.  Today was the first day that rally attendees can get in, 2 days early.  John & Glynda are parked next to us, John and Sharon are a stones throw away, we saw Ron & Lois as they were parking RVs, and another HitchHiker parked next to John & Glynda so we got to meet some new folks.  We also saw John & ??? who live in Foley, AL and are here in their HitchHiker.

                                                                A mini gathering.