Zanesville, Ohio & Longaberger Basket town

We, what an awesome day we had! Left the campsite around 10, headed out to see Longaberger with few stops along the way (of course I had to forget deodorant & Joe forgot windshield washer) so Wal Mart here we come :o)

Oh & our discharge on the electrical system seems to have been nothing but loose battery cable wires :o( Apparently (I got nervous yesterday when the OG kept blinking in between the normal blinks) so I called the place where we bought the trailer and spoke to them-well they are just the nicest guys in the whole world (Slicers Campers & Trailers in Delaware) They went into the internet (after calling the factory rep) now mind you we did not buy this gadget to control the trailer brakes from them, just the trailer-but still they spent a couple hours trouble shooting the error code for us! Came back to tell us what this OG meant & it meant "Open Ground" so then that sent us looking for what this means and.....this morning when I bought the windshield washer-Joe went to pour it in and looked at the cables on the battery (which had just been installed recently) and noticed they were very loose-so out comes the wrench...tightens that up and lo and behold no more error codes on this break gadget!!!! Go figure, so again we slip in under the gun & save a major cost/repair- cha ching cha ching

We head off to Frezeysburg to see some baskets and baskets and baskets- man when I say baskets, I mean baskets. This town has so many baskets, it is unbelievable. You name it and they have a basket for it! We watched them make baskets in the factory, then Joe got the brainstorm-if they can make them, why can't we? And sure enough-we can & we did! Took about 3/4 hr but it is absolutely adorable....it's called a large berry basket & we got to choose the colors & tacks for the sides and make the whole thing - start to finish! What a cool and neat idea!

After that -it was off to tour the land of Longaberger! What an amazing, inspirational man Dave was & very generous in his day (deceased now) He donated, built and participated in much of what went into the area till his dying day. I'll attach some pictures we took today

Actually we took pictures of their office building which is in the shape of one of the picnic baskets-it is seven stories high and they say at night it is all lit up and very stunning. Then we went into Dresden & saw the biggest basket right in the center of town.....and trust me when I say every store was a basket store of some sort! Would've spent more time there, but good ole Linda was backing up just one more step (to take a picture of Joe in front of the biggest basket) when she stepped into a hole (covered with grass) and of course wrenched her back-so needless to say the spasms & pain started almost immediately (glad I had my meds with) but I ended up flat on my back the whole ride back to the trailer (about 30 minutes) in the back of the suburban! Then laid on my heating pad for about another hour while Joe went back out to find someplace that had a Y bridge (yup that's right it's a Y) and when he came back I felt a little better so got up and we had something to eat .....I decided on yogurt w/ granola & when I bit down on I guess a piece of granola & broke off a piece of my molar-so now I need a Dentist rather quickly because my molar is basically wide open ;o(

So the day off really good and ended up rather poorly.....

Hope tomorrow brings something a little less frazzling, but wait till you see how cute this basket is....I told Joe it really does make up for our little trip to McDonald's, lol.....cause I told him I was never going to let him live that one down!

Tomorrow is Friday & I just put in a frantic call to our friends (Dan & Pat) who we're going to see in Milan, In. when we leave here (asking them to see if their dentist will see me tomorrow afternoon) So, here's hoping and praying that he will! If not, Joe just came up with an idea and maybe the very nice lady at the office here (the one with the Bailey look a like) has a dentist and we'll just delay leaving & get an appt somewhere in Zanesville

Well, I'll finish this post tomorrow and add the rest of the pics then.....