Today nothing was planned--we could do whatever we wanted, whenever we wanted. We stuck to our normal routine of a morning walk and took our time over breakfast and getting ready for the day.

Since it was a little cooler and cloudy this morning, John decided to head over to Leta's and finish up the gutter job before the day got hot. While he was gone, I did some dusting and straightening up around the house. By lunch time, the sun was shining, so we decided to go down to the Par 3 course and play some golf. We had the whole course to ourselves and the both of us played a pretty good game. I managed to get to the greens in two shots--that's a big improvement for me.

This Friday and Saturday is Fort Clark Days, so after we got done with golf we decided to head down to the front of the fort where the festival is being held and check out what was happening. On the way we ran into Gene and Rodger--they were on their way to Pico's for some ice cream. John never turns down ice cream, so we followed them into town where we enjoyed a big bowl of Banana Split. That flavor seems to be everyone's favorite. The entire Endris clan was also there filling up on their favorite flavors.

After eating our fill of ice cream, we headed back onto the fort and spent an hour or so walking around the festival. We visited with Sam Lark at his living history camp where he shared some Civil War history with us. Things were starting to wind down for the day, so we headed back home with plans to spend tomorrow at the festival seeing the rest of the exhibits and enjoying the food and entertainment.