Creation tour trip - Day two

Here are some of yesterday's pictures as promised. Visit the picture website to view ALL the photos.



Flat, corn and windmills. i.e.Iowa













The underground RR rest area.













The sun's last hurrah.












Sunset's many fingered wave.













Our "coach".

Dinos dining at Basta's Monday night.

Day two:
7:45 am: After partaking in a scrumptious 6 am continental breakfast of omelets, French toast, sausage, cereal, fruit and baked goods we boarded and departed under clear skies, heavy fog and 52 degrees. Devotions this morning were presented by Dick, our resident Gideon, who yesterday had distributed New Testaments for us to hand out and fulfill our ministry as opportunities might present themselves throughout the trip. (By the way yesterday's devotional leader was Virgil.)

9:10 am: Arrive at the Lincoln Presidential Museum to meander the morning away through the multitude of displays and multimedia presentations depicting the times and events of his history.
12:10 pm: Depart Springfield, IL under partly cloudy skies and 64 degrees.














1:15 - 1:45 pm: Extended half-hour RS at a Decatur, IL truck stop where even the pastor was seen WORKING helping to wash the windshield of bugs and we were on our way again with clear blue skies and 66 degrees. Back home it's 79 according to the weather report.
Minutes after our departure, snacks were being distributed in all directions when the ordinarily venerable Virgil "supposedly" lost his balance and flew into the security of the blogger's arms. The soft sofa allowed both to escape injury of all but their pride. The rendezvous was short-lived but the deranged camera toting dinosaurs demanded a reenactment. And to think, Virgil's bride was sitting just across the aisle!!! Not to mention it is the blogger's 13th anniversary today!! And her husband was sitting on the other side of the odd pair! It was remarked that we were passing through Champagne, IL at the time. Not that there HAD to be any connection. But it IS only minutes up the road from that last extended stop.
But speaking of daliances, it is rumored aboard the motorcoach that a certain salvage dealer, Dick, may have some marital salvaging to do after his verbal sortee with the cute waitress at the second table at Basta's last night as he sat beside his wife of more than 50 years!!
And while we're on the subject of relationships, another anniversary couple is with us, Ranleigh and Julie Anderson, married 48 years today. Another occasion of note was overlooked in my report yesterday. The royalty among us, Mr. Jack Phillips of England, celebrated his 94th birthday and we crowned him king for the day with a REAL crown from Burger King!!


An amazingly astounding adventure occurred at the museum this morning. There were such realistic wax figures of Lincoln and others of his time you could almost imagine they were actually breathing!

Wait! Who are those two kids on the ends? That looks like... No. Could it be??!!? I thought it was just his 94th birthday yesterday not 194!!














3:33 pm (actually 4:33 because we're in the Eastern time zone now): RS Waynetown, IN. Beautiful clear blue above us. Deep green all around us and beneath our feet and 72 degrees.
4:45 pm: Again underway with another round of snacks.
Pastor Wayne (no known connection to that RS) taking note of the blogger's silliness with her stuffed coyote neck rest piped up saying that I'd been on the "____" too long. We ALL loudly reported him to Cindy the cop who came with the Tootsie Roll to collect his fine. As she passed Shirley Braaten, who also made confession, the cop HERSELF remarked that Shirley was the most honest person on the "___". Her hand flew to cover her wicked mouth as all within earshot pointed condemning fingers in her direction. She beat a hasty retreat to her seat toward the front as her face turned crimson with shame that she too should be discovered a sinner!! A vicious chant of "Cindy, Cindy!!!" mushroomed throughout the coach.
6 pm: We're on the interstate now so we're really truckin', so to speak, that is.
A few long tubular clouds are scattered on the whole circle of the horizon. Just about an hour to tonight's hotel. And we just voted to try for Cracker Barrel for dinner. For the morning we'll be only a short jaunt from our main destination, the new creation museum. And tomorrow is "museum day" all day long!!
7:15 pm: Arrive Cracker Barrel in Harrison, OH where we celebrated today's two anniversaries and yesterday's birthday with free desserts for the celebrities.
We enjoyed browsing the vintage items at the gift shop before and after dinner. The crew of servers joined all of us at Jack's table and sang for him as he teared up with joy at the special attention. As we made our way back to the coach we held an impromptu photo shoot on the restaurant porch as a whole line of dinos rocked the night away...in the country style rocking chairs on display. Jack's knees, as he sat in his chair, played host to a variety of young women leaving the restaurant, one of whom shared his birth date. A few of the less inhibited guys in our group also tried out his lap for the pictures.
9 pm: Depart Harrison for Hebron, KY and our home for the next two nights, Comfort Suites.
A rousing sing along erupted aboard the coach, gradually melting into a series of sweet hymns before fading into the darkness. Off to our rooms. See you in the morning.