Parade of Nations

We did our Lake trek early, and went to the café to check the repair on the Juno software. Everything seems to work fine. I must make a back up of my address book so I won’t implode if the problem recurs. We looked at some pictures sent from the Georges and answered some other e-mails. We hurried home and readied ourselves for the parade. I made a lunch of chicken salad, sodas, poppy seed/hazelnut bread, and E. cut some peaches. We had wanted to arrive around 10 but were late because we had to deposit trash and pay a bill. As it turned out, we would have been just fine arriving at 12:30 for the 1:00 parade. It was beastly hot and we had to sit facing the sun. Whatever we suffered, however, was tripled or more by the dancers from the other countries. Most of them wore heavy costumes. The Latvian men even wore long wool coats. Theirs appeared to be worst, but none of the countries looked comfortable. It is quite spectacular to be seen, however. Evelyn and Shirley wanted to go shopping after so I took Paul home. As I got to the car, it began raining harder and harder. I had to drive around for about half an hour because the street had been closed for the parade. It was just as well because it was raining too hard for Paul to get to the car. When I could get to the lawyer’s office where he was waiting, the rain had eased. We stopped at the Bear’s Den on the way home for a beer. I had another at his cabin. E arrived and we went home for dinner and rest. We went back to Waynesville for the street dance where we met Shirley. Paul can’t walk so he stayed home. We had a good time “street” square dancing even though that really heated us up again. We have a good time here. I tried to pay Sandy, our association treasurer, our quarterly dues but she was gone all day and even when we came home at night. Tomorrow we will go “junking”: looking for garage sales and flea markets.