Saturday – April 29 – It rained all night last night so I kept waking up and thinking about how wet John would get hooking up this morning, fortunately though about the time we got up the rain stopped so he managed to hook up in the dry. The Branson forecast was for high winds and severe thunder storms so John wanted to leave as he is paranoid about possible hail. We got away about 9:30 and although we didn’t see rain all day the winds were really gusty – probably the worst we have seen yet.

We got to Cedarbrook RV Park at Mulberrygrove IL about 4:30 this afternoon and when I got out to go check in there were a few people barbecuing near the office and the one fellow said something about our awning and I turned around and here it had started to unroll. We got set up and a couple of the people who had seen the awning when we came in came over and helped John get it out and rolled up but there is major damage to the awning, it has started to rip loose from the roof for about 1/3 of the length – just what we need!!! John has been unhappy since day one with this awning as it doesn’t have the lock on it to prevent it unrolling like the other ones did – proof today that this lock is necessary! He now has it duct taped, strapped etc. and hopefully we can get home without any further damage. If it is really windy tomorrow I think we will just stay for another day.