It was cold and overcast when we awoke. After a quick breakfast, we left Lucy on board and dinghied into shore before 9 am to drive to Paducah. We stopped at a couple of different shops and picked up a few more items before finally returning the rental car at 11 am. The agent from Enterprise gave us a ride back to the marina along with Adele and her Portuguese Waterdog. Adele single-hands Rosebud, a 22-foot Westsail sailboat. She mentioned that she used to pilot the excursion boat Windy out of Chicago Harbor but decided to leave that behind and take off on her own boat as soon as she became eligible for Social Security.
We had originally thought that we would walk into town today to take part in the Harvest Festival, but it was cold and we were still tired from our Iowa trip so we changed our minds and spent the rest of the afternoon resting, putting things away and updating the blog.
Tonight was the University of Iowa’s Homecoming and they were scheduled to play Michigan. Gale had checked in at the Yacht Club’s restaurant earlier in the day and they said we could watch the game in their bar on one of the two available televisions. We brought our box o’wine, shared an entrée of stuffed orange roughy, and watched Iowa squeak out a win, 30 to 27.
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