Family visiting time

We had breakfast with Gerry's class members at the hotel and wound up talking for 3 hours.  They finally ran us out so the lunch crowd could find space in the restaurant.  It was nice seeing everyone and getting caught up on their lives.  Lots of chatting going on among the members of the class.

Later we had a late lunch with my brother and his friend Sue at the Miner's Cafe in Gillespie.  It is located in the space where the old Brown Derby was located.  The Brown Derby was a hangout for kids when I was in high school.   We violated a long term understanding to not talk politics and had a spirited discussion going on.  At one time a lady in a nearby booth joined in and she must have been the only Republican in Macoupin County.  She knew her fact presented a counter view to my brother a  couple friends of his.  It was an interesting time hearing their points of view.

Most of the discussion started after Gerry and I mentioned we were going to watch the movie "2016" on Monday.  That went over about as well as something from Michael Moore would go over at a Republican Convention.  Needless to say, we will be going alone.  Review to follow.

After dinner we stopped by my brother's house and sat on the porch talking about safer subjects.  Jeanie, my niece, joined us for a couple hours and then we all got tired out at the same time.  We bid them a goodnight and drove back to the where the motor home is parked.

We did managed to retrieve 6 geocaches in the Litchfield, IL area very quickly and entered them on the log.  They were all fairly easy, but had a high difficulty rating.  Either we are getting better at this or they are rating the caches too high.  In either case, we did enjoy getting back to geocaching.