Sightseeing

June 12th 2008, Thursday 88* sunny

Today was sightseeing day, first we wend down town to the river thingy :) lots of shops and it is right along the river. First job, get some lunch! So we went to Bar Louies, think we ate at one of those in Kentucky at the Aquarium. Great turkey club sandwich! Three of us has the turkey and the turkey had a hamburger :) . Good food though. Then we took to walking the shops and the river scene, they had a fountain that was spraying randomly and the wind was pretty stout so we could feel the spray from quite a ways. Didn't buy anything just browsed, hit an old time 5&10 store that was packed! The had on display up above the shelves were boards with old toys they used to sell. That was pretty cool.

Next stop was the trout hatchery. We went here three years ago with our friends Mickey and Patty, this time we took the tour. Quite interesting to see the tiny little babys to the 25lb'ers . They release like 70,000 trout at a time like once a month into the lake there and 80% of them are caught within 2 months! You can see the fish in different stages in each pool. Hungry little devils. Their cost to raise a fish to 10" is .60 cents. 70,000 trout are released into the lake once a month during the summer. 80% of those are caught within 2 months!

Next we took a quick trip over the Damn Dam to look at the lake. It is still quite high from the wet season they have had and said they can not release to much water because all the lakes below are also full.

Next stop was the Stone Hill Winery, they were giving free tours. Afterwards was a wine tasting session. We tasted probably 8 or 9 wines. Our preference is the sweet wines and we really liked the Concord wine. SO after the tour of course we bought a bottle. There was a guy there I affectionately referred to as Parrot boy due to his hair cut, he didn't care what it was they were serving he was drinking it! LOL

Time for our Potluck dinner so I will report more after the feedbag has been put away.

Follow up: Friday morning

Well the pot luck was great! There was soo much food, the hamburgers and hot dogs were provided but each couple brought a dish. That was 55 dishes of food! HOLY COW! Of course we ate way more than we should have but it tasted so good!

Wednesday night we had dinner with my cousin and her husband. First she wanted us to go get Japanese food with them but by the time we got there she had changed her mind to cooking out! So she grilled some steak and had fries and salad to go with it. Then they took us over to see their boys houses. Very nice! Big large for our standards of living in 270 square feet but fits them well :)
This is Becky and Rogers house from the front: