October 31, 2009 / HALOWEEN!

Left Carthage, Missouri around 8:30 and cruised right along I-44 again parallel to the old route 66! Stopped at a Knife/Gift shop where David bought me a gorgeous bowl carved from walnut wood. It is truly a masterpiece. Then crossed over the freeway to the other side to check out an antique shop. People, I have never seen a place stuffed full of sooooooooooooo much awesome old (very old) country stuff. They had some of those old enameled buckets people hung on the kitchen walls for salt, flour and such. Well those we saw today were all written in German which means that they were brought here from some German pioneers. Oh gosh, why didn't I bring a truck to fill with all this need stuff. David firmly forbid me to buy anything since we would have to haul it back to San Diego, then pack it to move it back this way. He promised me though that if I couldn't buy a similar antique baby buggy I saw for my mom's handmade dolls in the state we would move to that he would personally drive back here to get me this one. Yeah right!
Then just drove on and stopped tonight in Mt. Vermont, Illinois. Parked our RV at a dumpy RV park and then went across the street to check out this farm store. It was the most awesome country store I have ever visited. They had everything form wood burning stoves to goat feed, from carthart clothes to John Deer toy tractors for kids. I just loved the toys they had. No pink barbies, but stick horses, wood farm animals, any kind of little horses for girls and farm Lego kits. Then there was of course the plastic toy skill saw for the boys and the pink fake hunting rifle for the girls.
Tomorrow we will end up at our first destination for house hunting in Indiana. We will park in Marion and then hopefully by Monday check out the first 5 houses in and around Switzerland county. Yes truly, there is a Switzerland county and wouldn't it be fun if we would live there. There is even a town called Vevay which is the English version of a town in Switzerland.
That's it for tonight. Will try to download some pictures as soon as I figure out how.
And Michelle mentioned that I do make mistakes. She is right of course but I am writing much of the blog while driving and the bumpy road makes me miss sometimes a key. I DO spell check but am not to concerned about mistakes. All I want to do is let you guys know what we are doing and at the same time have a diary for ourselves. Time goes by so fast that I can't remember today where we were 2 days ago. So friends forgive me my mistakes as for my English composition of words or sentences there is no hope anymore!!! No matter how hard I tried, I never learned and now it is to late. Some people say that my English is charming. Well gosh I hope they mean it and don't say it just to make me feel good. I believed all those years so don't change on me now when I am going public!
Anyway, love you all. Till tomorrow!