Indiana Style

Ok.  We made it without getting lost or breaking down (although we did drive in a few circles).  Here's a photo essay of our trip.  

This was a restaurant we stopped at in some small town in Indiana.  We took the recommendation of a man we me walking on the street.  It's pretty much a dive bar.  This is their family room, or so the sign said.  The food was ok, and the desert was great.  Jackie didn't like it though.  Maybe it wasn't the cleanest place.  

Dinner at a Japanese Restaurant.  I don't know why we are leaning.  One sister ate her salad with chop sticks by stabbing the lettuce leaves with one stick.    Two sisters avoided this dilemma by eating soup with a spoon.  One sister used a fork for her salad.

We saw actual covered bridges, and even drove through a few.

The Covered Bridge Festival was really just an excuse to buy cheap stuff and eat.  Patrice bought a big plastic bag (a tough old bag, as we were told by a man with a southern accent, so it sounded like "tuffle bag").  Then she carried all our stuff for us.  That was nice of her.  We also bought several quilts at an auction.  These didn't fit in Patrice's bag though.  It was tough enough, but not big enough.

This man has a pig with wings on his head.  Naturally, he kept talking to us.  Of course we ended up buying wings and sauce, and posed for this lovely photo.  Notice Mary Jo is taking the picture.  She didn't want evidence of knowing the pig man.

Three sisters got tattoos of a five leaf clover with a sun rise behind it.  The other two sisters said they will get theirs at Christmas.  We hope so.

The tattooed sisters with a genuinely tattooed man, although you can't tell from this picture.  He had a lot though. 

We ended the trip with a visit to Coleen and Brian's house.  Brian gave us interesting directions.  No compass points, no landmarks, just turn on whichever road we wanted.  

The big question of the trip was what exactly does the word "wonk" mean.  Jeb Bush described himself as "wonky" in USA today, so we decided we could use it any way we wanted.  Kind of like "smurf" for those of you who remember.  Example:  "We smurfed and had a smurfy time."  I also looked up a definition for future reference.  The American Heritage Dictionary defines "wonk" as "A student who studies excessively; a grind."  

Jackie said this:  WELL I BET YOU DIDN'T KNOW THIS  

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 SPELLED SIDEWAYS MEANS SISTER IN CHINESE.