Around 12:30 we break and head out of the Park. We stop to pay for one more day. They know us now up there--we don't even have to spell Monat anymore. Bob says the employees have a betting pool on how long we're staying. We took a vote and went back to Log Cabin Mesquite Grill--after all it's the best place in town. This time we got a table inside the actual old log cabin. There were lots of antiques and collectibles hanging on the walls. There was a pink fuzzy fake fur purse sitting on the windowsill next to an old trophy. I thought it was an antique purse from the '50's. But the two girls across from us left, and one of them took the purse to pay her bill. I should have known; she had pink cowboy boots and a pink rhinestone belt!
Bob had half of a mesquite-smoked chicken and I had the mesquite grilled shrimp salad with that chunky blue cheese dressing. We were okay until we ordered the Exploding Brownie. This has to be on my top 20 list of all-time favorite desserts. It was a double layer milk chocolate cake brownie with huge pecans, ice cream on top, whipped cream exploding down the sides and chocolate 'n caramel sauce drizzled over the whole mess. Bob gave it high marks for presentation. It was so rich it made your teeth chatter:-)
We headed home in a light rain and a sugar-induced coma. We did manage to get a newspaper on the way. Back home I wrote out some more Christmas cards while the rain fell pretty hard. There was a break around 3:00 so we threaded up our rods and drove to the first little pond we had found the other day. I caught one 8 inch bass on a shallow crank bait. It started pouring and we took refuge under the pavilion. After 15 minutes it let up so we tried again. Soon we got drenched for good. So we ran for The Beast and drove back home where my Christmas cards were waiting.
It rained steadily all evening. High winds and thunderstorms are forecast for around 9:00 p.m. We never saw the campground cat today. The folks who came in late yesterday left mid-morning in the oldest "Travel Villa" 5th wheel we've ever seen; moving that is. They had their steps down as they went by. Hope they don't rip them off, there was no time to catch them and let them know.
We had leftover chili this evening. It was nice on a rainy night. It is unseasonably warm and muggy though. The high was 74 degrees today.
It's 6:47 p.m. and 62.3 degrees. A big limb just dropped on the roof. The rain continues.