Wednesday, 9/17/25, Breakfast with Bev and Jim at Cracker Barrel, visited Lela and Doug and had so much fun and great food, went to Rosie’s after our drive around Carmel, chili at food tent for dinner, Great message from Tim Grifham and baptism afterwards, Bill beat me at 3-13 and dice

Riding to Kokomo with Bev and Jim.  We ate breakfast at Cracker Barrell

Me, Lela and Doug enjoying sitting on their patio enjoying a great visit, the nice weather and the beautiful and plants they have planted.  

Selfie time!  I love my new case with the built in stand.  I sure hope I find my old phone still.  That’s the only reason I have the new phone case 

The flowers on the table and vases and pots were beautiful.  Nice to see everything in person that I’ve seen on Lela’s blog

This was our very fun chauffeur for the day!  She’s hired!!!!!  

Lela picked the best restaurant for us to eat lunch at.  It was called Bru burger bar

Lela’s delicious salad...we both ordered a small, but it was huge

My delicious salad was the same as Lela’s except the waiter asked me if I wanted protein on mine.  I asked what kind and he named chicken first and that was exactly the kind of protein I wanted

This was the only picture I got of Doug’s burger.  Bill got his food last.  He finished second though.  Lela was third and I was fourth.  She told our waiter that we had to do a lot of chewing with our salads.  She sure had him laughing and the rest of us too.

Bill’s Burger looked amazing and he said it was the best!

This a picture of the restaurant.  The parking lot was full when we got there.  It was all that chewing that made us be practically the last ones in the restaurant.

We enjoyed our drive around town seeing all of the life sized people statues. 

There were a few moments when I was wondering is that a person or a statue

There is a statue like this in Sarasota Florida only it’s huge and not life sized.  It was so fun to see them all

We went by this one but I didn’t have time to get a picture.  I found this picture online.

This is in the center of the roundabout by the Library.  Those are books!  It lights up at night.  

This one is beautiful of Queen Anne’s Lace.  It lights up at night too.  It was just beautiful with the sun shining on it.

Bill and I on our trike, ready to leave and go back to the Veteran’s Reunion.  Lela took these pictures

This man was talking to one of the workers in the food tend and she was telling him about Jesus.  We were eating our chili at the table near where they were standing.  I heard her ask him if he wanted to receive Jesus and he said yes.  Then she started praying.  I quietly joined  in prayer as they prayed.  After we ate, Tim Grisham gave a great message and then afterward the man that got saved, got baptized.  He had to pull the golf cart under the tent so he could get close as he had some trouble walking.  So touching to see God working.

We all rejoiced with him afterwards

We left early to ride our motorcycles with Bev and Jim into Kokomo to eat breakfast at the Cracker Barrel.  We did some shopping afterwards.  After that Jim and Bev went back to their camper because the guy was coming to empty their tanks.  We headed to Carmel to visit Jared’s parents, Lela and Doug.  We got there and sat out on their patio and visited.

Lela and I pulled their cute comfy swing up closer to the table by where the guys were sitting and we all had a nice visit.  We enjoyed seeing all the chrysalises in her butterfly cage. Wow!  It’s just amazing how many!  I am going to have to get me a butterfly cage, because this is so much fun to watch.  We took some pictures, then Lela drove and I sat up front with her and the guys rode in the back.  She was probably the best Chauffeur we’ve had.  We went through at least 155 roundabouts was what I think she said lol.  I did look it up and when I googled it, it said that Carmel is the roundabout Capital and has the most in the United States and possibly in the world.  Wow! That is pretty amazing.  She took us to some that had beautiful art pieces in the center.  I got pictures of 2 of them which are above.  We really enjoyed seeing all the people statues in the city too, besides seeing all the beautiful flowers and hanging plants.  She showed us the road they lived on when Jared was born and she took us through the old area where the big houses are.  She is sue the best tour guide too, and boy was their new vehicle ever comfy.  

We went to Rosie’s Greenhouse, which I have read about on her blog, but didn’t realize how big it is and how many unique plants.  It sure was fun looking at them all.  It was fun looking at the amazing rocks in the gift shop and also all the unique gifts for sale.  We rode around some more and then ended up back at their house.  We were so happy it worked out to get together.  We always like to go to their house when we are at the Veteran’s Reunion in Kokomo.  A big thank you to you Lela and Doug for being so hospitable and making our visit so fun.  We love you guys!  

We left and had a nice motorcycle ride on the expressway which felt good because the wind cooled us off.  It was 90 degrees and not so cool if we were stopped or were going slow.  We 

hung out in the camper until we went down for some chili at the food tent.  Then we visited with some of the workers and got to share Melissa’s testimony of all the miracles God has done.  We also listed to Tim share a great message and watched a baptism.  Then we came back to the camper and played 3-13 and dice and Bill won both games although both were very close.  It was a great day.