Thursday, 9/3/26, Got up at 8, Doug and Sue came over around 9:30, we left at 10:30 on the motorcycles for Snover, the Country View, shopped and had lunch there, rode back and just made it before the rainstorm, talked to Melissa, Tornado Warning back home,

On our ride to Snover.  Doug and Sue are on their Indian motorcycle ahead of us
 

Jane, Jay, Bill, me, Bev, Ron, Don, Jerry, Betty, Mel, Gloria, Bill, Doug, Sue, Marsha, Russ, Kim and Tiny

View from the other end of the table.  A nice lady who was eating in the booth next to us came over and insisted she take a picture with me at the table too.  I had taken two before she offered.

Bill lost and had to wear the donkey hat.  He sure was funny.  I lost the game before, but was fast with my Hee Haw and escaped a picture

This was the last game we played.  Everyone else was tired and left.  We had so much fun this last game!  

Shawn taking his turn losing and saying hee haw with the donkey hat on

 
We got up at 8 and got ready.  Doug and Sue came over around 9:30 to see if we wanted to ride to the C ountry View Store in Snover with them. We told them yes and set a time for 10:30.  Bill went over and talked to Dustin while I read my Bible.  He had read his Bible while I got ready.  He told Dustin it was Peyton’s birthday this Sunday, so Dustin said he was going to get her a birthday present.  He came back with a golf cart that BayShore gives us while we are here, because Bill helps a lot with parking people.  We left at 10:30 and it was 73 degrees out.  It was such a nice ride in the country.  It took about an hour to get there.  Then we shopped and bought a few things, including a cherry pie made by the Mennonites.  It looks delicious.  We paid for our stuff, then went into the attached restaurant and had lunch.  Bill had chicken tenders and I had a chicken salad sandwich meal.  We had a nice visit with Doug and Sue and also another couple who were sitting at our big table.

Sue kept track of the rain on her phone and it said BayShore was going to get rain at 2.  We left at about 12:50 which gives us time to get back 10 minutes before the storm.   We made it dry all but the last mile which was just a few sprinkles.  

Melissa called me and said there were tornado warnings in St. Charles and Saginaw until 2:30.  She was just dropping Max off at college and was trying to decide whether to try to drive home or sit there where she could run in the building if need be.  We were both trying to get the latest information.  She waited until after 2:30 and went to Tim Horton’s, then decided to call Hailey and have her pick up Evan from school, and she went back and waited the hour for Max to get out.  Otherwise she would have had to turn right around and come back.  We were thankful when the warnings were over.  Praise God...no tornado touched down.

We took the stuff we bought out and covered the motorcycle.  Then we got in the camper and the rain started.  About 4 couples (Ron and Bev, Ron and Barb, Phil and Julie, Phil and Carol) came with their campers right while it was raining.  They all set up in the rain and then it started pouring out.  We all stayed in our campers until it stopped.  Then Bill and I took the golf cart around and talked to people.  I am so happy to be back at BayShore.

We called everyone to see who all wanted to go to the Lamplighter Restaurant to eat.  Bill called Dustin from BayShore and asked him if he wanted to go with us too.  He was going to try to come, but had lots going on.  He was really happy to be invited and said he would take a rain check if it didn’t work out.  I made reservations for 18 people.  We all met there and there were 20 that ended up coming.  

The meals were large in portion and very reasonable and so good.  The only problem was that Jane didn’t get her food until everyone else was done eating.  She finally got it and we all stayed and visited while she ate.  

We came back to the campground and met in the hospitality room and played donkey.  We had two tables full each playing a game of donkey.  We all had fun.  I had to wear the donkey hat the first game, Bill had to wear it the second game and Sean had to wear it the last game.  The last game was between Sean and Bill and it was so close.  Bill had the donkey, but was able to give it to Sean and he ended up getting stuck with it.  Lots of Laughs.  

We came back to the camper and I worked more on the blog and Bill read the rest of his Bible reading.