Iuka and the Laundry Room-December 10, 2013

We had the coach at the paint shop at 7:20 this morning. It was projected to be completed by 5:30 this afternoon, so we had lots of time to waste. Since there is no running water we took some clothes to the laundry room. There was a lady who was ironing appliques for a quilt. She is from Canada. There was also a lady whom we had seen in the service building and knew she and her husband were from Louisiana. A couple we had visited with who were from Southern Florida left so we remained seated and did not interrupt the others. A third lady came in and she is also from Canada. They talked about cell phone service. Then one asked the Louisiana lady where she was from. She replied "Breaux Bridge, Louisiana and both of us without hesitation yelled "Yes!!!" So the conversation turned to food and music and how we love Breaux Bridge. We told all of them we had been to the Cajun breakfast and Jerry got out his cell phone to show the dancing at the breakfast. We were all cackling like chickens. It was hilarious. So, Oraline gave us her number and said to call so we can all go to breakfast together when we get there. We will do that. I'd love to learn to dance to that Zydeco music. Who would have thought you could have so much fun in a laundry room?

Even after we finished the clothes we had too much time on our hands. So, we hopped in the car and stopped at a "wholesale to the public" store in Belmont and looked at Christmas decorations. They were beautiful. I'll try to post some pictures tomorrow if I remember it.

Then we just decided to head for Iuka, Mississippi, about 21 miles down the road. As we normally do we found a restaurant that had a full parking lot of local cars and stopped and had a late lunch. It was good and always nice to get some home cooked food. Then we drove to the old downtown part of Iuka and found a wonderful old church.

Circa 1873. The Church of our Savior is still available for weddings. It is a board and batten Gothic building. And it's in really great shape. All of the older houses in town have a sign in front that tells the name of the house and the date it was built. That's an interesting thing to do.

 

Then we found Mineral Springs Park. We really didn't know what the meant but a nice man who was putting up Christmas decorations told us that the springs in the park are still running and are truly mineral springs.

 

We did not have to taste this to know it was mineral water. We could smell it. Not pleasant.

 



Across the street was a covered bridge. It is not one of the old ones. The homeowners built this one as an entry to their subdivision.

 

So you drive through this bridge and see this:

Isn't this nice?

 

We paid our bill today so we are officially out of here tomorrow. We have to go back to the paint shop for them to put the ladder back up and to touch up two new scratches we put on the back yesterday. If all goes well we should be on the road by noon. We have been here 26 days, that's about 25 too long!