Camping Trip, Day Five

Sunday, Nov. 7:

Up at 7 a.m.. After breakfast we went to another outlet mall, where there is a shoe store with the brand that Mother prefers. We arrived near 10 a.m., and were puzzled that the store had not yet opened by 10:15.

Hubbie decided to go look at a mall bulletin board to see if there was a posted time. On the way, he talked to a woman walking down the sidewalk. He returned to the car, grinning. The woman had asked him if we remembered to set our clocks back last night. No, we didn't remember.

Feeling foolish, we went shopping at a craft mall, again until the store opened. Unfortunately, even though the store had the style of shoe that Mother wanted in the color she wanted, they did not have her size.

So we went to a kitchen store, where Mother found mini baking pans that she'd searched everwhere for.

From there, we went to a country buffet for lunch, and then back to camp to feed Shih Tzu and rest before going to a 3 p.m. country show.

The lobby of the theater where this show was performed features Roy Rogers' horse, Trigger, and his dog, Bullet. The theater acquired the mounted displays this month, and they intrigued the crowd waiting for the theater doors to open...folks were snapping pictures right and left.

This show featured seventy-three-year-old Bill Anderson, newly engaged (to a lawyer) 70-year-old Jeannie Seely, fifty-four-year-old T. Graham Brown, fifty-eight-year-old Barbara Fairchild, and fifty-three-year-old Jimmy Fortune (from the Statler Brothers), performing in living room style, with small talk, and singing.

This was a surprisingly large theater, too, though not as large as the Andy Williams theater. We were seated at the far left on the third row, with a good view of the stage. This was not our favorite show, but we still enjoyed it.

These performers are featured on RFD-TV, a fact that most of the audience, except us, recognized. Hubbie was convinced that we do not receive that channel on our TV, but when we got back home, I checked and found that in fact we do get it, but we've never watched it.

Still, we recognized all the performers, except Jimmy Fortune, as well as their signature songs.

We were back at camp by 5:30 p.m. Later, we played Skipbo again. I won all three games this time.