Birch Run

Sunday there was an art fair in Frankenmuth. We purchased a cute sign for hanging in front of the motorhome when we are camped anywhere. We veg around and are glad that we came up to Birch Run for the extended stay, Our stay there was with many side trips, but we touched bases with many old friends. What a wonderful time.
Monday was a move day. We had a reservation in Benton Harbor over by Lake by Lake Michigan. It was to be a short drive and then we could see some sights in lower SW Michigan. We arrived at our resort (?) at about noontime! What a crappy place, we looked around, no need to take pictures!! It was early so we got back on the road and looked for a campground in the South Bend area. We wound our way around South Bend on the beltway and found a nice little campground, 10 miles South of South Bend. We signed up for electric only. Seems the don't have sewers anyways and they had only well water. Oh well, we can camp out a little on the rough side for the next three days.

Monday night the wind picked up and we tucked in for bad weather. Son Greg called and told us in his area the storm sirens were going off and since we were about due east we might look for someplace to take cover. Tom watched his iPhone and saw the storms heading up Lake Michigan instead of heading our way. Dodged a bullet on that one.

Tuesday morning sightly overcast, but since we were so close to Amish country I wanted to go to Shipshewana for the big flea market. Off we went and let me say I think this must be the largest flea market ever. They (Amish) hold it every Tuesday and Wednesday all year long. Typical flea market junk and then some. Afterwards we went into town to the Blue Market Restaurant. Great meal, low prices and a cool place to sit and rest after all our walking.

Wednesday, dreary day that it was, we went into South Bend (yuck, Notre Dame territory) and toured the National Collegiate Football Hall of Fame. What a place to not miss, worth every minute there. But it was an awful lot of walking, two days in a row. We sure were tired. But happy we went.
Thursday was another travel day. We were going to Illinois and we were arriving a day earlier than our reservation was for. But, they had lots of open spaces when we arrived and we actually got a much nicer spot than we had last year at that campground. We will be staying there until the 5 th. Of July. We set up camp and wanted to take a nice long hot shower after not being able to the last couple days. What a great feeling getting out of the shower!

Last night we went to see Greg, Lynn, Emily and Allison. My how the grand daughters have grown sine April. I think Allison is almost as tall as Emily! Both girls are happy to see us and after a dinner we headed back to the R.V. Tired and ready to hit the sack!!!