Day #56 - Ottawa, IL
September 26th, 2008Well, good to know someone is keeping tabs on us. Peggy called this morning and noticed that we hadn’t made an entry yesterday. Oops, maybe I should make something up. Not much to report on our first full day in bug infested Ottawa, IL. I have never seen so many bugs in one place. We have everything from flies, bees, ladybugs, MOSQUITOS and noseeums. It keeps all of the captains busy washing their boats. Had a catch up day and finally got a ride into town in a courtesy car around 2:00. Lisa from Kismet and I had decided to make dinner for Bob and Charlotte on Foreign Exchange as they had spent the day on the river…all day. Went to the grocery store, a little tour around town, and the hardware store. Came back and prepared dinner and went to the captain’s meeting. Not a lot getting resolved there. You would think the boats who have been here two weeks would be anxious to leave, but it doesn’t appear that way. We are hoping for the announcement this afternoon that the rivers are open and we can all get moving. There are currently 66 boats in various places on this river system waiting for the word to move south. Should be interesting.
Had a nice dinner aboard Kismet, beautiful boat, nice people and good conversation. Came back to the boat and fell into bed.
