Ft Wilderness and Wilderness Lodge

It was a lovely, warm, shorts-wearing day. The RV repair guys came at 11:30. In 45 minutes they fixed the spring and installed a new topper over the slideout. While they were working, several people stopped them and asked them if they could look at their RV’s. Of course they were told just like us that they needed to call and set up an appointment. I can’t believe the amount of work they can get just by showing up.

We rode our bikes on the nature trail over to the Wilderness Lodge to check out their holiday decorations. They had a huge tree in the lobby and a neat tree made of red and black plaid flannel bags in the gift shop. We stopped by their little counter service restaurant and got a sandwich to split. While we were eating, a lady came in with a tray of cookies, icing, and sprinkles. From 2-3 every day they have a kids cookie decorating project. I wandered over to look, and since she just had one little boy, she told me to sit down and I could decorate one, too. Pretty soon another lady about my age came over and sat down too. She told me I couldn’t leave until she was done. It was kind of fun talking to the little boy as we decorated and ate our cookies.

On the ride back to the campground, we passed two deer grazing in the woods. They stepped back a big and waited for us to pedal on. We also caught a bunny nibbling. It was a pleasant afternoon. I did a load of laundry before dinner and started setting stuff out to take to NYC and Raleigh for a month. It is strange to be packing from the RV, especially for a month. We had shrimp and some veggies for dinner. We are trying to clean out the refrigerator before we have to shut it down and dump or give away what’s left over before we leave on Thursday.