Tuesday, July 18th - Cousins Visit!

Delaware Lake State Park is great! The layout is kinda like "pods". There are five major pods with each pod having 4-5 sub-pods (for lack of a better word). Each sub-pod has about 10-12 VERY spread out campsites. In our area, there are 8 campsites and besides us, there is only one site in use. I am sure that week-ends bring the crowds but, for these weekdays, this is delightful!
We hope to have some downtime while here. There are about a dozen little to-do's on my list like checking tires and oil, installing four runoff troughs that direct the air-conditioning condensation runoff away from the coach, cleaning the back-up camera glass protector. We want to get our bikes down and use them while here and the tires need to be aired up. Small stuff.
Mary Alice's 1st cousin, Peter Yeldell, and his wife, Marlene and their children, Sean and Coleen came up from Columbus this evening. Peter is the 6th of seven kids of MA's father's brother, Johnny, who lived at Lake Lotawanna, MO near Kansas City. We had a wonderful visit, reliving tales (some true, some suspect) of Berry and John Yeldell. Uncle Johnny was always special to MA and she loved visitiing them at the Lake in the summers she was growing up. We grilled Chicken-ka-Bob's and MA make Round-up Salad and Potato Salad and Marlene brought an excellent cheesecake. It may be difficult to schedule (Peter is an Emergency Room Physician and Marlene is a nurse) but, we hope to be able to see them again while we are in the area.