Shipshewana, Indiana

September 18 - 22, 2015

On to the second get together with the Women RV ladies.  All of the ladies in Rockville Lake Park headed up to Shipshewana Campground South to meet some of the other ladies from the forum for another few days.

Back row L-R: 
     Nan (Gentleladybear), Eileen (beazle), Sarah (bluepinecones), Sue (Colliemom), Carol (carolinagal),
     Roberta (bertk523),  Claudia (Wings), Tina (BirdbyBird), Kathy (gingerK)
From row L-R: 
     Liz, Brenda (Sue's friend), Cheryl (IrishIroamed)

And a few came up for the day:  Chezza, MelissaD & Phoenix

The site were a little closer together than I'd like, but it made the visiting easier.

But the view was fine by me!

Zorro and I experienced our first thunderstorm in Colt (the trailer) and I kept an eye on the radar.  If any tornado warnings were announced I was planning on getting us to the shower building, even though dogs weren't allowed.  I would guess the campground folks would have understood.  I think Zorro had a good time, he was enjoying playing with all the other dogs.  Here he is looking for Howdy to come out.

Nothing was preplanned, so as ideas for things to do came up, we just broke up into individual groups to check out the stores or to go for something to eat.

On Sunday, Sarah, Claudia and I went to breakfast in Elkhart (everything in Shipshewana is closed on Sunday) and then toured the Ruthmere mansion.

Yes that's a real cardinal at the fountain near the coach house.

Shipshewana is a very large Amish and it was fun to see all of the different carriages and bikes, including hearing the clip-clop of the horses hooves on the street. Seemed like I never had my camera with me to take a picture of a carriage going down the street, so the best I can do is a weather vane.

A couple on their bikes going to Sunday service.

Carriage rides are also available.

A few of the murals in Shipshewana.

The Amish are also known for their beautiful quilts.  The town also has some samples of the different patterns for quilts as art through out the town.

Nan was also nice enough to host a pot luck at her rig one night.

And what's a get together without the camping puppers! Unfortunately, I missed Spring, Bear & Remi.



Sue's Molly

 

Sarah's Nicki

Claudia's Howdy

Tina's Stuart

Tina's Audrey

And Audrey getting some love from Mom.



 

Indiana Covered Bridges

September 15 - 18, 2015

I had a chance to meet some of the ladies from the Women RV forum which was a lot of fun and nice to put real faces to the names.  A group of us met down at Rockville Lake Park in Rockville, Indiana.

L-R:  Roberta (bertk523), Sara , Claudia (Wings), Liz, Sue (Colliemom), Carol (carolinagal), Brenda (Sue's friend)

We did the Black route driving tour of the covered bridges, unfortunately, at the second bridge, Sue discovered her hitch had been stolen off of her truck.  We back-tracked to the campground with the hope that is just fell off, but it was definitely stolen.  Sue and Brenda then went to an RV dealer to get a new one, and the rest of us continued on the tour.

I was a little disappointed.  I don't know why I thought the bridges would all be different, but they were all the same.  This is the bridge where we think Sue's hitch was stolen.



Views from both sides of the bridges.

 Since we retuned to the campground, we decided to go into Rockville for lunch at the Jailhouse Café.

City hall (currently under scaffolding).

Continuing on the Black route of bridges.

 The Bridgeton Bridge and mill.

A sign inside of the mill.

A couple of the bridges you can actually drive thru.

We (Liz, Brenda, Sue, Roberta, and Claudia) were on the lake side of the campground where there was an upper and lower level.  The majority of us were on the upper level with Sara and Carol on the lower level.