Wednesday, August 5, 2009.  Scott and Tom went up to the grocery store and bought groceries for our trip last night.  Tom fixed a “Sloppy Celery Burger” dinner last night.  It was great!

We put the awning out, and sat and enjoyed the evening air, and took to our beds by 10 p.m.  During the night a huge wind came up, and caught the awning.  It felt to me as if the trailer were about to blow away.  Tom and Ray, it would seem had a different idea about what the rocking was all about.  Those two guys…

Wednesday, we were on the road by about 10 a.m.  Our plan was to stop at the rest area at Happy Jack Road before heading for the Rendezvous site in order to fill up the water tank.  There’s no water to be had here at the site, and I didn’t want to haul 450 pounds of water up the steep hills between the rest area and Cheyenne.  Unfortunately, the water spigot at the rest area was mucked up and I couldn’t get the water thief around it.  So we had to fill the 6 gallon water jugs and dump them in to the holding tank one at a time!  That’s 8 times that I would have to pick up 50 lbs to shoulder height!  Fortunately, Scott finally got the water thief connected and we were able to use the hose.

By 1:30, we were all set up at our site.  Someone “stole” the site we wanted so we picked another… it’s better!

We hung out with Cindy, Juline, Susie and Linda for a while, then sat around at our site.  We went for dinner at the main “camp central” for a hamburger and hot dog pot luck.  After watching a little of the opening ceremony, Scott and I headed back to the trailer by bike.  It’s about a third of a mile from the central area to our trailer… up hill.

Tom and Ray joined us shortly thereafter.  By 9:15 p.m. we were all climbing in to our respective beds!