Dayton and Lafayette

Today was forecast to be "partly sunny" and "48 degrees."  It made it to 48 degrees, and it didn't rain, but partly sunny?  No so much.  We didn't let that trouble us, though. 

The old blogger slept in, while Mrs. old blogger got up at 5:30 with Lulu, who wanted to go outside.  Both of them came back to bed and slept awhile longer.  But they eventually got up and left  me snoozing until after 9:00!  I haven't done that in a very long time.

After a little breakfast, we took the dogs out for a walk around the park.  They were grateful and enjoyed the walk.  Lulu needs a lot more work on "heeling" and not barking at the neighborhood dogs. The park is nicely laid out with concrete pads that are mainly pull-throughs and some are bordering on level. The sparse landscaping is well maintained; the park personnel are friendly, although we checked in yesterday after the office was closed, so we didn't meet the office personnel.

Jill did call the office this afternoon to get a voucher for the wi-fi network.  Matt in the office cheerfully gave her the code, so we logged in...for free today! Yesterday, we had to pay, since we didn't have the code.  We are using our new Pepwave wi-fi repeater.  We log the repeater onto the park network, and then we log onto the repeater which provides our own network in Sadie.  This gives us another layer of protection against hackers, and it means we only have to change the network settings on one device. Works like a champ!

Jill and I decided to explore the area surrounding us. We drove into Dayton with the idea in mind of lunching at one of the local eateries.  The one we had in mind is closed on Monday.  The others didn't seem appealing, so we drove to Lafayette.  There we found the American Cafe.  It is a typical local diner with typical diner food. We shared a patty melt with onion rings and cream of broccoli soup. Jill was heard to remark, "The best patty melt we ever had was at Red Robin."  Draw your own conclusions.  The onion rings were quite good, as was the soup, although I would have added some cayenne, had I been the soup chef.

After lunch, we visited the Schoolhouse Antiques Mall.  As you might have guessed, it is an old school house that has been re-purposed as an antique store.  There are three floors of antiques and collectibles.  It was interesting and well-organized, but I have never seen so many things in one building. It made my head spin, after awhile.

I spent most of my time trying to figure out how the rooms were originally used in the school building.  It is rather uniquely laid out. Each floor has a central room that is square, but the walls are set at 45 degrees to the exterior walls of the building. Around the central room are four square rooms with more usual orientation.  They are joined to the central room by trapezoidal rooms, which are rather small, as if they were once private offices or store rooms or, perhaps, large closets. Suffice to say, the architecture was interesting, and the antiques were, too.

We came back to Sadie and  I lay down for a while, since my back has been complaining all day. Then we took the dogs out for another circumnavigation of the park.  Now we are settling in for the evening. I believe the festivities will include a Christmas movie!

Tune in again tomorrow.