Day 2 of our tour guide job

Monday was a travel day.  But first, I forgot to mention that as we left the Grove Park Inn yesterday, we saw a bear cub in the middle of the road that led to the Inn.  This was a populated neighborhood, and I was concerned.  We were safe in the car but momma bear was around somewhere.  The cub ran to the right. The car in front of us moved and we saw momma and the cub cross the street.  We had to move because of traffic behind us.  But back to Monday.  Janice had wanted to see the indians in this area, so we went to Cherokee.  We drove there on the Parkway to show them some of the territory.  They were fascinated with the mountains and the green trees.  We drove into the Smokey Mountain National Park a short way so they could say they had been there.  We also went to the Harrah’s Casino.  They wanted to see it and have lunch at Paula Deen’s restaurant.  We learned that her restaurant had been replaced.  I was ready to leave because she had been railroaded and betrayed, but we ate in a food court that was there before she was.  As in most of the things we did, just a portion of it was enough for them.  We took them to the Oconoluftee working Cherokee Indian village, but, after about half of the tour, Janice developed another asthma attack and wanted to leave.  We came home, and I asked Don for some advice about how to repair our back step.  Before long he had torn up more than I had intended, measured for materials and talked me into going to Lowe’s to get some wood.  We returned with the equipment, and I went to Gary’s to borrow his skill saw.  I thought Gene might have one, but he didn’t.  He did have an square Don needed.  Don began sawing and cut most of the needed wood to length.  Evelyn had been resting but had been up preparing the the country style ribs for our dinner.  Afterward we decided to finish the project tomorrow morning before leaving for our travels.