Wednesday, June 8, 2016

This morning we had breakfast at the hotel, as usual.  When we got off the elevator, Stella said "what's our room number?"  And here's what followed.

"I was just going to ask you the same thing.  Pause.  I think it's 219."
We proceed down to 219 and stare at the Do Not Disturb sign hanging from the door handle.
"Did you hang that on the door?"  Me.
"No."
"Neither did I.  Maybe it's 221."  I tried our key card in 221.  Didn't work.  I tried it in 217.  Didn't work.  After trying five doors...."I'm going to have to go ask, aren't I?"
Sigh.  I trooped off down to the desk,  "how's your day going?" Asked the desk clerk who was about 22.  "It would be going better if I could remember my room number.  We've been on the road for 28 days and they are all running together."  He looked up the room. "216". "216!  I could have sworn it was on the other side of the hall!"  He was laughing still when the elevator door closed.

We left Jamestown headed for Edinboro, PA, and came through heavy rain around Erie.  I don't think that's unusual for the Great Lakes area but we were glad to get a little ways inland to get out of it.  In Edinboro, we went to the college campus to see the statue of "Angus, the big bad bronze Scot."  It's huge, and it was rainy and windy so we snapped pictures and jumped back in the car.

It was only 46 degrees this morning, a huge change from what we were experiencing a few days ago.

President McKinley has a library and museum in Canton, Ohio, so we headed that direction.  We got out of the bad weather the farther south we went.  The library and museum only has one large room devoted to McKinley (it's not part of the federal presidential library system) but it was different since it had life sized talking mannequins of him and his wife.  The remainder of the museum is mostly about the history of the area.  It has a very large model train exhibit that was fun to watch.  And it has a planetarium with a 30 minute program that we went to.

I guess I just don't have the imagination needed to picture the constellations.  The woman doing the presentation showed us what constellations and planets are visible right now.  Jupiter, Mars, and Antares were featured.  Ursa Major and Ursa Minor were two of the constellations, but they just looked like random stars to me.

We drove to Marietta, Ohio, for the night.