Meet Marcel!

 It is nice to be here at Treasure Lake at the same time as friends who also enjoy Silver Dollar City.

Linda & James Sockwell

Kathy & Brian Adams

Thursday and Friday we were all at SDC at the same time and just saw each other a few times, but ended back here at the same time for the evening entertainment.

Saturday was a rainy day and would have been crowded so we didn’t go out to “The City”.  

Sunday we found a private party selling a mobility scooter in Mountain Home, Arkansas.  It was a good deal and exactly what I need to get around in SDC.  We had a lovely drive which is what we enjoy doing and came back with a new treasure!

It is a perfect fit... in Minnie and for us!  His name is Marcel.

Maxx, Minnie, Mark, Mommer.... and Marcel!

I decided to go to Urgent Care this morning with hopes of getting an injection in my foot, but left with an oral steroid prescription instead.  I trusted the doc when he advised me to keep doing what I am doing in terms of shoe inserts, stretching, icing and to add a night brace and the med.

My chef salad dwarfed Mark’s chicken fried steak at the Farmhouse Restaurant!  We skipped the Blackbery Cobbler even though it has no carbs or calories if you are on vacation! 

 We stopped at The FlagStore and came home and spiffed up Marcel!

Crazy Craig’s Cheeky Monkey

 Thursday, May 13, was the first day of Silver Dollar City’s Bluegrass & BBQ festival.... a perfect time to have our old friends the Sales and the Ludwig’s join us to hear some great bluegrass groups and see the park.

We have all been married fifty years or more!  I walked up to a young couple and asked if one of them would take our picture.  The guy was nice enough to take several shots.  We found out they had only been married five days! 

 I should have taken the newlywed’s photo!

Fifty years looks good on both these couples!

After my surreal impromptu wheel chair excursion first thing in the morning, there was no way I was going on any more thrill rides!  I was happy, though, to get from each couple to agree to be the riders for our group!  Bill and Linda are indeed dare-devils!

The church ladies.....

We finished up the day at Crazy Craig’s Cheeky Monkey Bar.  What a fun place and a bunch of fun people!  Good BBQ too!

This was very cool.  The DJ was starting music at 9 pm just as we were getting ready to leave.  Before he started, he told about meeting Bill and noticing his cap.  He honored both Bill and Harry and they got to sign their names on the special Veteran’s Wall.  It was very meaningful and the whole place applauded!  Thank you guys!!

Awkward! 😳

 I didn’t post for a few days because there wasn’t a lot to report.  I rested this pesky heel all day Monday.  We did laundry and Mark washed Minnie on Tuesday and I rested my heel more.

Wednesday I resorted to riding a scooter at Walmart.  Mark decided we should buy a wheel chair so I agreed if he was willing to push me!  After a search at a couple of places, we found a little wheelchair at a thrift store!

It was a perfect fit thanks to some recent weight loss!😂

Thursday was the first day of Silver Dollar City’s Bluegrass & BBQ Festival!  It was great to have friends Bill & Peg Sale, Harry & Linda Ludwig, and Brian & Kathy Adams meet us there bright and early.  

What a guy!

I took this “selfie” of Peg and I as we were waiting for the flag ceremony.  Notice how tightly Mark is holding on to my chair on that hilly street. I was completely confident with my feet both up on the fold down foot platforms without a care in the world. And then.....

As they were honoring our veterans, suddenly I didn’t know why but I thought Mark was pushing me quickly out of the crowd for some reason.  I suddenly realized I no longer had a knight in shining armor holding tightly to the handles and I was heading right straight for a couple down the hill!! I don’t think I hit them, but I don’t know how I got stopped either!!

I honestly don’t know what happened, so I asked innocent bystander Peg Sale to give this first person account for us:

“My account of the run away wheelchair chair at SDC.  

We are all standing around talking and all of a sudden there goes Vicki lickety split down the hill towards a couple and we all looked and thought she knew these people and was excited see them, especially since Mark wasn't concerned.  I looked again and she is running into this couple.  Water bottle goes flying and Mark gives me this look like “I guess I better go get her.” I still didn't know what this was all about.  She gets back up the hill and that's when we all find out she was a run away and had no idea who the people were that she ran into.   We all laughed all day about Vicki's meeting new not so happy new friends.🤣🤣🥰

Seriously.... could anything have been more embarrassing??  And I STILL don’t know what happened!  

Day of Rest!

 I know, Sunday is supposed to be a day of rest.... but Maxx was just chompin’ at the bit to get to our home away from home so we kept on truckin’ the 360 miles from Nebraska City to Branson, Missouri yesterday.

We were here, signed in, unhooked, had procured a great site and were all set up by 4:00 pm I think.  There are a lot of beautiful trees here, so the satellite dish set-up may have taken a tiny bit longer but not much!

Before bedtime last night, I had big plans to do laundry, clean house and take Minnie to a car wash!  By the time we got up this morning and I limped and shuffled to the bathroom and we listened to the weatherman, It turned into a rest day!

We have a lovely view out our window!

Minnie is okay to stay dirty another day. It may rain anyway!

We have a spot all picked out for our friends Brian and Kathy who will be here on Wednesday.... if it is available and if they don’t find another they like better!  😂

We had hoped for Kevin and sister Sandy to come join us, too, but they can’t. 😕 

James and Linda are nearby here in the park. 

Bill, Peg, Harry & Linda are in town and will be meeting us at SDC on Thursday.... 

and we hope to see Mike here soon too!

It is shaping up to be a great time as usual!

Nebraska City & the Big 7-0!

My trivial trivia:  Harry S. Truman was President when I was born, and I was born on his birthday, May 8, 1951. Today we celebrated my 70th birthday in Nebraska City, Nebraska on the Missouri River near the Iowa border.

 Lewis and Clark were first to note that the area around present day Nebraska City would be an ideal site for a future city during their expedition to explore the west from 1804 to 1806.  We started the day at the Missouri River Basin Lewis & Clark Visitor

After a stop at the Kimmel Orchard and Winery, we drove over to the Arbor Lodge State Historical Park and Arboretum. 

The 52-room neo-colonial house began in 1855 for J. Sterling Morton, originator of Arbor Day and Secretary of Agriculture in the 1890s under President Grover Cleveland.

We didn’t tour the mansion this trip but we did another time we were here.  Elegant!

Trees were a central interest of J. Sterling Morton. He imported trees from all over the country in order to test their suitability to create windbreaks and otherwise break up the monotony of the great plains. The house is surrounded by 270 varieties of trees and shrubs, including gardens, apple orchards, and acres of oaks, maples, chestnuts, and pines.

Sights and places along the road.  Pretty country.

Nebraska City has Streets and Corsos, not avenues!  What is up with that?!

We don’t recall seeing corsos anywhere else in our travels.

 

The Kregel Windmill Factory Museum is really interesting.  This was our second time to visit!  We were impressed at how well informed the young lady who gave us our tour is!

Birthday dinner was the BEST Gyros and homemade tzatziki sauce I have ever had in my life from the Downtowner Casual Cafe!  When we walked in at 3 pm we found out they were closing but we could get take-out.  We started to leave but I had already read reviews and knew the cook is a Greek with rave gyro reviews!  Eating at home and calling it a day was perfectly fine with me!

We are trucking south now on Sunday heading to Branson, Missouri, our home away from home!