This morning was a lazy morning. And when it starts out like this it can only mean one thing – it’s time to wash clothes. Marianne’s mom wasn’t getting back from church until shortly before noon, so we took advantage of her washing machine to wash our clothes.
We also decided that this might be a great day to go kayaking, since we’ve lugged our two kayaks once across the country but had never once put them in any water, except when it rained on them. Marianne’s family has a home on Lake Jordan, about 45 minutes north of Montgomery.
All three of us and the dogs loaded up in my truck with the kayaks on top and headed to the lake. We were going to stop at a BBQ joint to get some sandwiches to eat up there. But unbelievable as it may seem, we couldn’t find one!
When we were in Austin, Francois and Thalia told us their favorite place to camp in Montgomery was Ft. Toulouse, and since it was on the way, we decided to check the place out. Although it was pretty, it was just too far to drive back and forth to Montgomery, maybe some other time.
We were still looking for BBQ, so we decided to pull into the little town of Wetumpka to find a place. No luck, but the town was so picturesque we stopped to shoot some photos along the river and its downtown.
Marianne’s mom knew of a BBQ place just past where we turn off to go to the lake house. We were in luck, it was open and their food was good. We purchased three sandwiches, some macaroni and cheese and headed to lake.
When we pulled up to the lake house, we noticed there was a pick-up with a boat on a trailer parked in front of the house. Before we were even out of the car a man walked up and checked up on us, when we identified ourselves he apologized for parking his rig on the lot, and if we wanted, he’d move it. Nah, we said, no problem. Apparently he was storing it there until he had time to rebuild the boat’s motor.
We entered the house, and after we had our lunch, I let the dogs run free as I “inspected” the property. I really like this place and now, so do my dogs. They had a great time running around and checking everything out.
But, it was way too hot to do any kayaking. So we scraped that idea and spent the next hour or so just ruminating, before we headed back to Montgomery.
That evening we had lunch at the country club. It ain’t Montgomery unless we have at least one meal at the “Club.” We all had the buffet and it was delicious, including the exquisite key lime pie we had for dessert. After we finished it, our table was visited by a large black man who asked how we liked the meal. Great we said, and then he introduced himself to us as the new Club restaurant manager, who had only been on the job two weeks. He was starting things out on the right foot, we all agreed.
After dinner we spent a little time at the house, and then we headed back to our treeless frog city to spend the night.
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