July 13, 2008

View of the day-Al checking out the "Bun Wagon" at the Show and Shine on the Missouri River. It takes him back to his youth when he and his cousin had one of these at their main set of wheels.

Since we knew we wouldn't be combining, we decided to take the hydroplane races in, at Chamberlain along the Missouri River.

It was really something to see as they used two big cranes to lift the boats into, and out of, the water. The races were great, but there were long waits in between the heats as they would take all the boats out that had raced and put the new ones in...for pretty much every race.

One of the boats made it around the test lap, and one round of the race, then ended up getting towed in...a few pics of him coming in and his boat getting loaded.

The weather cooperated today as the wind was just strong enough to come off the water to cool everyone down...only in the mid 80's...real nice.

We figured since we were in the neighborhood...well 25 miles from the neighborhood...we would go for supper at the Lode Star Casino at Fort Thompson...that's 25 miles north, and we are 25 miles south at Hamill...what's a Sunday drive? We pass this place plenty of times each year as we move back and forth for the harvest, but not being gamblers...of the slot machine kind...we don't usually stop. Well, that and the fact the parking lot won't accommodate the big rigs. They do have prime rib to die for, which we had, then we dropped our 2 dollars each in the slot machines then left to come back to Hamill.

Back at the camper we finally started working on the books...oh, joy...

Tomorrow we knock a few more things off the list...