June 21, 2014 - Celina

Today, I got up at 7:30 AM and George was just getting back from walking Abby. He was was drying Abby on the front seat and she wasn't cooperating. So when she esacaped his clutches and came to me she was very happy with cold wet feet. She was my best friend, but I know she was just soft soaping me as she wanted her morning meal of canned food. I was in the bedroom making the bed which is difficult with a dog helping. For the last three or so days we have been saying to each other that we need to go to the supermarket, but just haven't gotten there yet. But now George is out of shampoo, and Abby has chewed up his last Chapstick. George's Mom now believes in the Kaplan Curse. Prior to coming to live with us, she didn't believe it existed. Her vehicle was recalled and an appointment was set up with the dealer to have it fixed, however the problem that it was being recalled for happened while she was visiting friends in Philadelphia. To make a long story short, the dealer gave her a rental car free of charge for the three months that they took to fix her car. During that time, she went through two rentals. One died and the other got a flat tire. The third one stunk like cigarettes, but she rectified that with Lysol deodorant. So, while on our trip, she finally got her car back, only to find out from sitting all that time, that the brakes are making a weird noise. So today, we stopped at a US Post Office in order to mail a bill and to mail her my key to George's car. The postal worker suggested using a Priority Mail box which would be cheaper then buying a box and the mailing it, plus it would get there faster and is insured for $50. She pointed at the wall where the Priorty Mail boxes were flat, and I took one look at it and handed it to George to assemble. I filled out the  label while the postal worker was talking George through the assembly. Even with that, he was having difficulty and we all were laughing about the box. Finally the postal worker finished assembling it, added the key, asked if we want to put a note, and we said it was self-explanatory, and it was sealed, stamped and placed in the out bin. From there we went to the Armstrong Air & Space Museum in Wapakoneta, OH. On the way we passed a food market and said we would stop on the way back. The museum is built into a hill with a dome protruding from the top. It is mostly about the history of flight leading to the history of the space program in both the Russian and USA programs. Very interesting, and it has several similator type hands on machines from Student Level to Advanced Level flying, and landing a space shuttle. I can't view the screens of such things as it makes me ill. After we left there we went to the town of St. Mary to see a lock from the Erie and Miami Canal. I had no idea that there was a canal from Toledo to Cincinnati nor a canal that is called the Erie Ohio Canal. Of course when we went back to the campground, we didn't go back the same way so we didn't stop at the supermarket. After lunch, we had to make a special trip and did finally get there. Tonight we had steak and fresh Ohio sweet corn on the cob or at least George had it on the cob, as I cut mine off. Watched a DVD we bought for our collection. Tomorrow we leave for North Bend, OH which is in southern Ohio, close to Cincinnati at a Good Sam owned RV resort.