May 31, 2010

Monday 31~~~~It was pouring down rain when we woke up this morning, it had rained hard all night long. There was one family who were tent camping that Kent was talking to when he made his rounds in the golf cart this morning who told him it rained so hard last night they had to get up and sleep sitting up in their car all night to stay dry. We arrived in Salem about 11AM stopping at Dick's Sporting Goods to buy one of those big shelters to put over our picnic table for the rain and sun (I think it still shines in Oregon) we will need it when we have company, as we have found our trailer fills up pretty fast with extra people and eating outdoors is what camping is all about. Our next stop was at Macy's to return a shirt I bought for Kent that I got the wrong size. We were in the store about 20 minutes and as we drove away, Kent said "where is Pepsi"? Pepsi usually lays on Kent's seat and makes him move him when we stop somewhere and Kent had noticed Pepsi wasn't there as he drove away. I looked all over the back seat and there was NO PEPSI!!! Kent immediately stopped and turned the truck around and there in the parking lot about 40 feet in front of us was Pepsi all hunched down doing a scared slow trot across the empty parking lot. We both jumped out of the truck and by now Pepsi was under a car where all the cars were parked. He was so scared he was doing his yowling cry! I crawled under the car and called him and he actually came to me which he normally doesn't do when he gets loose and has a little freedom. Two ladies came right up to us and asked if that was our cat, as they had heard him crying earlier and they thought it was a baby crying, then they saw him out there wandering around and they didn't know what to do. They were sure happy we showed up and found him and we were even more happy. Pepsi laid down and was quiet the rest of our time in the truck, he was still scared. I made hamburger stew for dinner with cornbread and salad for dinner, Tress and the kids came over and ate dinner with us. We invited Billy, but he was too busy to come over. After dinner we played the golf card game, it is a good game for Bodie, as he has to do a lot of adding for our scores. The weather in Salem was just beautiful, sunny with no rain, it was pouring at the park.