We were planning on meeting our second cousin, Mary Ann, and going to Carmi today for some genealogy research, but about an hour out of town, we hit a huge rain storm. It also started to get foggy (pea soup foggy) so Mimi decided that it was just too dangerous to drive. She pulled off at the next exit and we found ourselves in the parking lot of K-Mart.
We ran through the rain to get inside and then did a little shopping. We browsed for Father's Day cards.
After browsing through a meager 3 rows of Father's Day cards, we wished we had washed up on the shores of a Hallmark Card shop instead.
Amelia found some balloons.
We picked up some super glue, chocolate and a few more things. The major portion of the storm front had passed us by this point, but when I looked at the radar on my phone, the storm was still between us and Carmi. We were rather uncertain if we would catch up to the storm if we headed out so we decided to have lunch before moving on. Once again we followed our motto, "When in doubt, Eat."
It was lucky Mimi pulled off at the exit she did, because we discovered a Joe's Crab Shack right by us. How could we pass up crab legs?
Oh my, the crab was so good. Hooray for storm stops.
After lunch, we headed for Mary Ann's house again. It rained all the way there, but the bad part of the storm had either dissipated or moved on. Mary Ann and her husband Ron lived in an adorable little house and welcomed us warmly even though we were about 5 hours late.
We were thrilled when Mary Ann showed us another fantastic old picture that she had found from her grandmother. This one was from about 1903 and was a class photo from Fields School in old Shawneetown. It contained 3 of our relatives. Aunt Sallie (Mary Ann's grandmother) is on the top row, second from the right. Uncle Harry and Aunt Ethel are both on the second row from the top. Uncle Harry is first from the left and Aunt Ethel is standing next to him - second on the left.
We were so delayed by the storm, that we decided we couldn't make it to Carmi today. Instead, we were going to head through old Shawneetown and then spend the night in Evansville. On our way, we remembered that our cousin Mary Ann had told us that our other cousin (also named Mary Ann) still lived nearby in McLeansboro. We called her to see if she wanted to visit with us and after a little bit of phone tag, ended up at her house chatting with her and her little brother John David. Mary Ann #2 wanted us to come back on our way back home and generously invited us to stay with her for a couple of nights. She wanted us to meet her family and also look through a box of her mother's old pictures. We are really looking forward to seeing her again next week.
After all the visiting we were much later getting to Evansville than we expected. It was about 9pm and we were starving so we decided to pick up a little snack from Outback.
Sweet Pea conked out almost immediately. She is turning into a super traveler.
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