. We ate at Bandana's ( a bar-B-Que Place). The food was very good but I tasted it all night. Jeanine said the next morning she did too. Still very tasty.This is a picture of Rhonda and her group. For those of you who don't know she is from Greentop Mo. and is the sister of the Vincent of Daily and Vincent fame.
This was our hotel room. It was ok.
Jeanine and Lloyd had an adjoining room with a king sized bed and a sleeper sofa. They brought a blow up bed for Katlin. That is what you see leaning against the window. It worked out very well.
They also brought a sleeping bag, which Katlin loved. Here she is in her mummy bag.
The hotel had a 7 story waterfall. This is it. However it was not on while we were there. People were picking in the area around there and it made too much noise so they shut it off. The lighted things on either side of the waterfall are the glass elevators. Not for the weak stomached.
Katlin picked with the greats and the near greats. Although no one knew it at the time. the fiddle player sitting next to Katlin was the fiddle player for Nothin' Fancy, the group who presided at the awards. The banjo player won at least 2 awards that night. People would stop and listen for a while and move on. I'm proud to say she held her own with them.
Here she is with another group of mostly young people. They were very good too. There would be 5 o6 groups all playing in this area, but mostly you could hear the group you were listening too very well.
The guitar player is a friend of Jeanine's, Bull Harmon. Both he and the mandolin player won best of in their category.
This is the group Nothin' Fancy. Very talented and very funny. The fiddle player is the one who played with Katlin.
The leader of the group, a self proclaimed hippie. He was very talented. Really easy to listen to and very good harmonies.
Driving down Jeanine and I had seen this wall of rock with frozen icicles hanging down. Tried to get a picture coming back but it didn't turn out very good. It was like coming straight out of rock. Any way I thought it was neat.
Dan got bored coming home, so he started taking pictures of barns with his phone. But he could never quite get it centered. After listening to him for a while I got my camera out and told him I would show him how to do it. He was supposed to send me some of the better ones he took but he hasn't so I'm going to put in a couple of my favorites. We must have taken 60 or more pictures trying to get some good ones. It got to be pretty funny and at least passed the time.
This one is my favorite.
Sometimes Dan would want to take a picture on my side of the car. This time I got him instead of the barn. Go figure!
We had a really good time and was a nice break for the winter.
