Friday, September 28, 2012, Columbus, MS

Friday, September 28, 2012, Columbus, MS

These acorns are shown about life size.

We slept in this morning and after getting up I fixed the coffee. While we drank our coffee we caught up on e-mail.
Our campsite is surrounded by oak trees and there are acorns falling off the trees constantly.  When they hit the roof of the coach it is a loud snap.  I have seen them fall on the picnic table and they bounce about two feet off the wood.  They are only 1/4 to 3/8" but make a large noise when they hit.

Acorns littering the ground

At 1:00 I went caching. I found six and didn't find one. I still have some travel bugs that I need to drop off, but none of the caches I have found have been large enough.
We met some of Gerri's classmates at a restaurant called Tampico in Columbus. It was good Mexican food but the service was very strange. They served salsa in a squeeze bottle, I ask for a small bowl which I never got. Those that wanted something to drink were asked for their credit card to hold until the end of dinner. I don't think anyone went for that and the waitress asked what was wrong with holding the card. I guess she can't spell "credit card fraud." She said something about having to pay cash when we were finished. I ignored that and presented my card when the bill came.

Danny Kinard

There was a band playing near our table area so after dinner we went to the lobby of the Holiday Inn for conversation. That broke up about 10:15 and we headed for the coach. There was some wispy fog along the road and as we turned into the park I remembered that there was a sign that the gates close at 10:00 PM and open at 6:00 AM. Sure enough we got to the gate house and the arms were down blocking the way. Seeing no other recourse we parked the Jeep and walked the ½ mile to the coach. There was a full moon but the light was filtered through the trees so it was a dark walk until we got to the area where the RVs are parked. Twice I thought I heard Banjo Music and walked faster.

Maro and Rick Manning

Parks and Bev Mitchell

Back at the coach we caught up on computer time and went to bed.