Thursday, September 29, 2011

#11-35 Elgin, IL–9-14 thru 9-28, 2011

We arrived at Paul Wolff campground in Elgin on the 14th of Sept.  This campground has been enlarged since we were here two years ago.  We have a nice large camp site with 50 amp and water at the site.  There is a new dump site with much easier approach.  We paid $25.00 a night.  We like this campground because it is so close to our son and daughter-in-law.
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Lots of spaces during the week and on weekends people come in to camp and it fills up, even now after school has started.
We got together with Todd and Rachael as soon as we could.  They are busy people.  Rachael is auditioning for a play, Todd is putting together a business plan and doing some remodel work.  But, Todd found time in his busy schedule to build us a roll around cabinet for the kitchen and to put some electric lights in the dark cabinets we had in the bedroom.  He even found a broken board under our bed that the repair shop didn’t fix.  He rebuilt the broken frame and now it is better than new!
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Broken board and base under the bed where the slide comes in and out!
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New roll around cabinet for kitchen. Thank you, Todd!
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We took time to go out to dinner.  It was almost October and all around the town they were advertising Octoberfest dinners.  We first went to an English Pub (first picture), but it wasn’t very authentic German food, so we left—we ended up eating Italian!  The next time we did find a real German restaurant (2nd picture), but ended up driving about half hour.  Good thing Todd knows his way around!  The food was great and we all had a wonderful time.
Rachael put together a dinner party one evening, and we were able to meet some of their friends.  It was a lot of fun.  Everyone brought something, so food was delicious.
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While we were out running around one afternoon, we ended up at the little restaurant right around the corner from their house.  Rachael was home so she rode her bike and met us for lunch!
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The picture above is from another ride she went on, but it shows her and her bike!
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We finally left Elgin on Sept. 28.  We could only stay 2 weeks at the campground, and our time was up!  We will miss you kids, and we had a wonderful time.

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