The night

First let me apologize for the lame blog from yesterday. I was le tired and girly was sleeping. Let me describe the night for you. We were camped at an old abandoned playground, next to a cemetery. There was water and a shelter. But nobody else was around. We were in a town of about 53. The police did do a drive through to check on what we were doing. Anyway like I said girly was sleeping and I was lying in my satchel watching the fireflies being gobbled up by the bats. We were
Right near the woods and there were sooooo many animal sound, I was silently freaking out. Of course then there was the cemetery to think or try not to think about. Finally I fell asleep only to be awaken by lightening. Lots of it. Checked the weather report and a bad storm was bearing down on us. I woke girly and we decided to head for the enclosed shelter. We threw all our stuff into the tent and as we were gathering our sleeping bags and pads a screech came from girly. A frog had jumped into the tent and attacked her. I had to chase it a bit to get it out. We ran down the road to the shelter. Got settled on some old church pews and the rain and wind really started. Just made it. Glad we were there as there were some real cracking thunder going on. Slept pretty good once settled. Still nasty in the morning so we left late for muscatine. Rode in the rain, had a 12 mile detour and then headwinds and heat. Yeah. Made it to a night in the hotel. Resting and relaxing.
Nora, Jackie and Christine joining us late tomorrow.
Pic description. The other day girly used a box of chips ahoy cookies as a carrot to get me down the road. It worked.