Killing Time

It's late August, 2016 and we are spending another weekend in the parking lot "campground" of the New Horizons RV factory.  A first attempt at painting the repaired skirting and fender damaged by a double blow-out did not turn out so well.  We are hanging around so they can take another crack at it next week.  So for now we will mostly stay in to avoid the heat.  But staying in doesn't mean in our camper, we're going back to Salina to catch a movie and have supper at a sit-down restaurant.

The only problem is that we have to go past that chocolate factory again and I just couldn't keep Big Gulp from taking the exit.  We were able to restrain ourselves a little better and only walked out with nine pounds of chocolate this time.

Something else we took note of was that we go right past Abilene, KS on our way to Salina.  In fact, the Russell Stover candy factory's address is Abilene.  We made tentative plans to explore Abilene tomorrow, Sunday.

Salina's growth/present day construction has spread the town south of the original downtown.  To get to the (only) mall where the movie theater is you have to take I-135 S off of I-70.  About 5 or 6 miles down is the exit for the mall and big name retail such as Walmart, Dick's Sporting Goods, Hobby Lobby, etc. as well as name-brand restaurants like Red Lobster, Applebee's, Olive Garden, Chili's, and my favorite, Sonic Drive-In, plus many more.

Salina's Cinemaplex at the mall.

The movies available at the time of our visit were a bit outside our preference.  We settled on The Secret Life of Pets and called it good.  Once we exited the theater it was about 9 pm and we had to hustle to the Chili's occupying a lot on the corner of the mall property to get supper in before their 10 pm closing time.

Being out at this time of evening is a bit unusual for us.  For the last three years we have mostly been in remote locations that are great distances to places with nightlife.  Our day has pretty much been over when the sun goes down.  Tonight we are out on the town like real adults and dog-gone-it we are ready to be home and in bed.  It's a sad state of affairs, we don't want to be ready to be home but our body clocks have re-set to the routine of a volunteer camp host - early to bed, early to rise.

Back at the camper it is a little before midnight before turning in.  We'll set out to explore Abilene tomorrow after a leisurely morning.

Pretty boring post, I know.  But sitting out this repair work is exactly that.  We're trying to make the best of it.