Counrty Showdown Festival & Dinner with Janet & Doug 9/27/2008

We just couldn't leave NC without going to another of the "festivals" thay have and this one was the Colgate Country Music Showdown Festival in Williamston, NC. We got into town and parked and walked down to Main St. and there it was. We walked around the streets and saw lots of food and other than that it looked like a big garage sale. They were supposed to have arts & crafts vendors but we didn't reall see more than 4 or 5. Most of the vendors had "garage sale" items for sale and not crafts. They did have some good food like chicken on a stick, bbq, steak sandwiches, blooming onion, fries, funnel cakes and fried mushrooms. We had a funnel cake and a order of mushrooms and sat down and ate them as we watched the red necks walk up and down. They had 2 stages, one on each end of the street and when we were there the one stage was empty and the other one had gospel music being sung on it. It took us about 20 minutes to walk around and after we ate we left. We did drive around town after we were done at the festival and saw some of the older homes and churches in the town. Then we headed back to the coach and I watched Notre Dame-Purdue football game and Mom read. We were meeting Janet & Doug for dinner at a local restaurant, Ribeyes, so we left to meet them at 6:30. We had a GREAT meal as the steaks were very tasty and very tender and they had a very large salad bar. We sat and talked for awhile and as they had a hour drive home we had to say goodbye. We are looking forward to them visiting some time before we leave MB so we will see them soon. We went back to the coach and I turned in and Mom watched TV. Well time to say until tomorrow we love you all. Mom & Dad.