Day 3 - Sunday 8/10/14 It rained most of the prior evening and night but as of 10AM it is not raining at the moment. We are glad we have a site with a concrete parking pad and patio so we don’t have mud around us. Lena cooked blueberry pancakes for breakfast and we use the sourwood honey on them. Very good. We drove to Lowe’s and Big Lots to pick up a couple of items as it began to mist rain again.
At 4PM I went to the Pavilion to get our wrist bands for the festival. The promoters are trying something new this year with the seating. You bring your own seat and in prior years you could put it out when you arrived at the campground. This year I had to get in one line and sign my name and the number of chairs beside the next number on a legal pad. Then get in another line and get the wristbands and then stand around as the promoter read down the list and gave out a little card with your number on it. Then tomorrow at 10AM everyone comes back with your chairs and your number card and when your number is called you put your chair in the available position of your choice. This is a dumb procedure in my opinion. My recommendation would be to assign your number when you purchase your tickets and when you pick up your wrist band you also get the pre-assigned number. Most people purchase their tickets online so the numbers should be assigned in the order the tickets were purchased. We purchased our tickets 11/25/13 for this years festival.
It continued to drizzle rain the remainder of the day.
Day 4 - Monday 8/11/14 It was not raining when we got up for a change. About 9:30AM a lady that writes interview articles for Roughing It Smoothly magazine came up to our site and asked if she could interview us for the magazine. After the interview her husband came and photographed us in front of the MH with our “toad”. The magazine is for Tiffin Motor Home owners and it is a quarterly magazine. She had just taken over the interviewing job from a lady that is retiring. The January 2015 issue is supposed to have our interview - we will see.
Then we went to the pavilion to put our chairs in place when our number (#137) was called. This process could use some major tweaking also. Then it was off to Wal-Mart for some groceries followed by a stop at MoonDoggy’s Diner and Soda Fountain. This is a ‘50s style diner in Marion that we have ate at before. They have very good food and the place is decorated with lots of 50s memorabilia.
Mid afternoon I got a call from the service center office that UPS had delivered a package for us. It was a Shade-Pro awning drop that we had ordered. It attaches to our main awning and comes down to about 2 feet from the ground and blocks the hot sun rays but you can still see through it and get a breeze through it. The bottom 7 feet zips off before the awning is rolled up for travel. We quickly installed it and it looks nice and will keep us cooler when setting outside while the sun is out.
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