Thursday, March 20, 2014

I had planned to go to a seminar on the Polar Bear migration until I realized it was sponsored by one of the motor-coach tour groups who want an incredible amount of money for their tours. I at some point began coughing and my voice was beginning to deepen. George drove Laurie & Bob down to the area where the new motor-coaches were. I walked to the rally area once again as no tram was in sight. George went to the vendors and I went to a quilting class which was very informative. I didn't know that one could by a jelly roll which consists of strips of cloth already cut to form a quilt when sewed together. Of course my fellow classmates were all experienced seamstresses. If they only knew that I would be attempting this feat with a needle and thread by hand. The speaker had some amazingly complicated designs which she talked about each one and how she had created them while traveling. If she only knew? I did find out that I could take my sewed together jelly roll to a professional quilter to have the quilting done. After the quilting seminar, I went to play bean bag baseball in the multi-purpose building. Had a great time but my team lost, however I did get a RBI and the bag in the third base hole. The other two times I was up, I struck out. After that I met George at the vendor area where he was looking at electric motorized scooters at $675.00 each. I test drove it plus we checked to see if the scooters would fit in the SUV and it was easy to check as George had the SUV in the area from driving Laurie & Bob. We ended up buying two which one of them had to be shipped home as the dealer had only brought three to the show. George was able to get a deal for buying two. Both Laurie and Bob expressed that we could have gotten an even better deal if we bought four and wished that they had known we were going to buy them. George plans on using his over at the Biz Park to collect the rent, LOL! We also bought flexible lids that fit on any shape container, a dressy scarf for Fran, a light made from plastic panels, an LED light strip for the awning, two carbon things for grilling with no mess, and a Rand McNally GPS Navigator. We had an outdated Garmin which was fine except there was no way to program it to know that we had propane on board. So every time we went south on I-95 and cut over on I-695 toward the Francis Scott Key Bridge, the Garmin would constantly scream "recalculating" and try to steer us back to the Baltimore Tunnel. Many times George would just turn the darn thing off until we got back to I-95. It was such a pleasure! It also has a bigger screen. They only thing, George dislikes about it is that it only shows the route that you are driving and cross streets, but it doesn't depict the off ramps like the Garmin. I suggested, putting the Garmin next to it with the sound muted. After we purchased the scooters and loaded our loot into the SUV, we went back to the RV. After diner, we all went back to WalMart to return the water boots, and then stopped at DQ for ice cream. Afterward, we all settled in for the night.