We dropped the camper off at Chad & Faith's house on Monday and headed for Louisville, KY to watch Adi compete in the USTA National Championships. We spent Monday evening watching the kids in the hotel pool before turning in so we could get up for Adi's 8:30 double mini competition on Tuesday morning.
Tuesday, it was double mini and trampoline eliminations. Wednesday was tumbling elimination and the finals for all three events. Adi got a 6th in double mini, 6th in tumbling, and 2nd in trampoline. Not a bad showing!
On Tuesday afternoon, we went downtown and for lunch at Boomer's Cafe and a tour of the Louisville Slugger Factory and Museum. It's an interesting place. A lot of history there.
Late Wednesday afternoon, after Adi's last event, Marsha and I headed back to Chad and Faith's house while they headed to Florida for a few days of vacation on the beach. We "camped" in the driveway and headed for Hoby's Happy Hippy Hoedown on Thursday morning.
We left home on Wednesday, June 4 and camped in Harden Lake Campground at Raccoon State Recreation Area near Rockville, IN to break up the trip. The three hour drive on Wednesday left us about six hours to go on Thursday to arrive in Frankenmuth, MI at the Pine Ridge RV Resort. There were 14 campers from Canada and 56 from the US. We met many new Canadian friends and visited with newbies and all the "regulars" from the Central Great Lakes Region.
Frankenmuth is an old German community founded in the mid 19th century. It's a big tourist town with many events and festivals throughout the year. We visited Bronner's World's Largest Christmas Store and the HUGE outlet mall just outside Frankenmuth in Birch Run. It would take a week to visit all the stores, but we managed to spend an ample amount of money in the three or four we patronized.
We and three other couples went to Zehnder's (the family who founded Frankenmuth) restaurant on Saturday for their famous family style chicken dinner. It was really good!
The weather for the entire trip was perfect. We had a good time.
