Day : 10 Sunday 04-jul-1999
At WBCCI International
Wright Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton, Ohio
Today is the 4th of July, the Big day in America.
For the 3rd time since we got here, Lillemor went over to the laundry place. Debbi Cocco, a neighbor of our's with an Airstream motor home, went with her. After that she did a quick trip to the grocery store, with Isabella. Izzy did not get lost this time.
When Lillemor came back it was time for getting to the place were the parade was put together. All the kids were going to walk in the parade wearing the T-shirts that they made this week. They were also handing out plastic bead necklaces.
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| WBCCI Youth lining up for the 4th of July parade. The heads of Izzy and Erik are just next to the side windows of the blue Suburban. |
In the parade there were also all kind of silly vehicles, but also a nice car for each region president and the ten queen was in a yellow Chevy Corvette. At the end more serious vintage trailers and last came the scooters.
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| The poster on the side of this Airstream says it all: 1949 and still going strong. Why waste money on something that falls apart? |
It was VERY hot, about 95, and we all suffered from the sunburns we got yesterday at the water park.
After the parade we went to a ice cream place that the other had talked about all week: Young's Dairy Farm. That is a really neat place, a farm with petting zoo, hayrides and ICE CREAM. We can highly recommend it. There were at least 20 different flavors to choose from. Lillemor took "Cow patty" and raspberry, delicious. It was not hard to guess that the "Cow patty" had double chocolate in it. Nice to sit inside and it ice cream.
We went outside to the farm and looked at goats, lambs, pigs and jersey cows. They all looked VERY lazy and hot. The thermometer on the farm wall in the shad showed 100(38 C).
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| While Isabella was bending forward to feed the goats, one of them reached forward and ate one of her price tags on the T-shirt (she used to have 2 red tags!). We had to wait for the goat to spit out the remainders... |
We went back to the trailer and started to pack and get ready for a early departure tomorrow morning. Per had hoped to be able to update the WBCCI web page but they had shutdown the e-mail trailer. The other trailer friends went to the closing ceremony, but we stayed and continued to pack.
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| Izzy, Erik and Karl at the front wheels of a B1 bomber (can you see them?) . This plane, and many others, were parked in good company just a few hundred feet from our Airstreams. |
At about 9 we had dinner. Perfect night. Several firework displays; one was even right behind the Air Force museum. The other came back from the ceremony and joined us. We tried to run the air-conditioner, now that we are the only one on the circuit. But the voltage was not high enough. It would drop down to 105V and the fuse in our trailer would go off. But it cooled down a bit during the night (70 F) and with the fan on we slept very well.