Later is Now

We had another chance to grab a weekend together and decided to come back to Madison Indiana.  It is intriguing to me that many folks said: “what are you going to do there?”  Pretty much nothing but relax but still it is charming little town and we enjoyed it here last Fall.  

We agreed we didn’t want to do the same B&B we did before & since I was too tight to do

The Cotton Mill Inn last fall, I decided to stay there this go around.  What changed?  My best friend died a couple of months ago and while I love her hubby, and am glad  he is squared away.  I also watched someone work their whole adult life , retire and fairly soon after die.  Seems that it is true that you can’t take it with you.  Not that I seriously ever thought that but I think we get so caught up in saving for later that we forget that later is now. The hotel is cute a nice mix of the old and modern. Comfy bed, the only sad thing is no bath tub.  C’est le vie!

We went for a short walk along the river and sat down to listen to an open air concert.  It was nice, until…..

This more than portly woman with crazy blond hair constrained a bit with a headband pulled up in a red jeep, music blaring, got out of the car, leaving the door open and started doing some moves.  Jodi said: “look at her.”

It was a mix of karate Kid, bad slo mo ballet & jazz all mixed together. She walked out to this little fenced overlook area and did her her moves. Jodi kept saying look at her and I kept thinking if she’s as crazy as she looks, I don’t want to provoke her.  Her blaring music drowned out the band that was playing and Jodi made up a story about her and a

Couple that walked up and Jodi aid one of them was her ex & she was showing off her moves to let them see what they lost. Regardless she made quite the impression. So much so that I had a bad dream about her. I was dreaming that she chased me into a public bathroom stall and  she had me by the hair and was trying to yank me to her via the space besides the door.  Jodi woke me up laughing, wanting to know what I was dreaming about.  I said I was hollering  for help in my dream and she laughed more.  Jodi said I was saying hootie hooooooo and it didn’t sound desperate. It just goes to show that an ugly image at bedtime is not so good

I got up this morning g pretty late for me and ran down to the lackluster breakfast, but it was food. I have a goodie for breakfast in the AM, included or not.

We went to a little store called Olde Tyme Marketplace. And we found the cutest denim jackets with a swing back!  We each needed one and I found a cute top to take on vacation! Also Jodi found a solar candle, can’t wait to  see how it works!

We tried out a place called the crêperie for lunch and while charming, the food was weird and definitely not French!  

I had the Tomatoe Tatain, which looked

Interesting, and it was but not in a good way.  It was too too too!  I had to eat a few M&Ms to be done with the taste Jodi had a banana crepe

And it was just ok.  So probably not a do over.  

I want a pic of downtown but alas there was a farmers market there and not the image I had in mind  so we headed to Clifty Falls State park,  it was 4 degrees cooler there than in town!

I’m lounging and reading a cute book by Nan Reinhardt.  

Dinner was at the Red Pepperoni the cheese bread was not a hit, salads ok,  pizza good.  

We got back to the room and not a thing had been done.  This hotel was a splurge and we came back to an unmade bed.  They had not serviced the room, at all.  The front desk said that they were supposed to ask if we wanted servie and they forgot, but it is usually every other day and since we were jut here for 2 nights……..It just lost mega points.

Disgusted we went for a walk, the weather is quite nice  not after a nice showers while we were dining on pizza. 

A child or animal cold get lost down this open drain!  

 We watched a American River Cruise board dock at 8 PM?  It took forever and it is an odd thing to us.  Who goes to Madison Indiana at 8 PM looking for much of anything?