BROOKVILLE, OHIO: The Last Seven Days................

.....have been spent doing ordinary things in our full-time RV lifestyle -  cooking, eating, laundry, watching TV, and enjoying computer time.  We had an email and phone coversation with Mike to catch up on his plans (plenty of baseball work and possible move ahead), a phone call review with our financial adviser, other phone calls with friends, taking care of business items by phone and online,  ham antenna work by Hank, laundry by Selene, daily walks around the campground and talking via ham radio with old and new friends.  The weather has been beautiful everyday, with overnght thunderstorms one night, and daytime temperatures gradually warming into the mid 80's.

During the past week, the Dayton KOA campground was mostly empty of residents, although a lot of RV's are parked here for the season, including those in the section we're in. This weekend there's a special rate offered and RV's and families have been coming in all day.  Most of them will depart by Sunday evening, and then the hams will be start arriving daily to get ready for the Dayton Hamvention next weekend.  Cooler temperatures will also arrive. After some rain this weekend, the  weather should be beautiful once again.

Yesterday, we drove to the southern edge of Dayton via suburban roads through some beautiful neighborhoods and rolling hills for an early Mother's Day celebration at Outback Steakhouse (received a nice coupon via email).  We returned through some of the inner city roads back north to the Brookville area.  In all the years we've been coming here, we've never really ventured far off the path between the campground and the hamfest.  Dayton is not a huge city, but it definitely has some nice areas and interesting sights.We also spent some time at a Meijer's store, only our second time to visit one of these retail establishments.

Today, we ventured north to Union, OH to refill a  prescriptions.  Back in Brookville, Hank got a haircut and we celebrated his birthday with a bountiful buffet at Rob's Restaurant.  This is a place that a large group of hams go to on the Saturday night of the hamfest, so we've been there many times.  We both agreed that some of the items were not as good as we remembered, but others were very good.  The desserts are all made in-house, and they always have make-your-own fresh strawberry shortcake along with cookies, various pies, and soft-serve ice cream. We definitely did not leave hungry!