Plans? What Plans!

Little Bohemia
pic courtesy of Mom


Should we have planned better? Or not? Sometimes the best plans fall apart. Yesterday we knew we wanted to go for a ride, just did not know to where. After we left the house, I remembered I have been wanting to go to Manitowish Waters for twenty years, but never get around to getting there. There is a lodge there, Little Bohemia, where the federal agents thought they had John Dillinger surrounded years ago. They were wrong, Dillinger got out.





Any way, as we were driving yesterday and I remembered that I have always wanted to check this place out, I turned the van around and we headed that way. We were going to arrive around lunch time. Perfect, learn some gangster history and let Mom and Marv buy me lunch! I was wrong on both counts. As we pulled into the driveway, we see a big banner that says they only serve dinner on Tuesdays. Is dinner lunch or supper? In this case it is supper. Every other day of the week they serve lunch and you can come in and look around. Oh well. We stayed outside and looked around.

It was still a great day. We found another place to eat, Michaels, and Mom and Marv still bought lunch! Our waitress was a lady I know from when I worked at the bank twenty years ago, she has children the same age as mine and we have attended a few Bible studies together. A couple of years ago her husband passed away, leaving her to finish raising their children alone. I have not seen her since then, but she has been on my mind many times over the last two years. Whenever she came to my mind, I would always say a prayer for her, knowing that life was not real easy for her.

Even though the day did not go quite as planned; I still got a free lunch, Mom and Marv bought, and I was able to see an old friend. God is good!

I think we have another adventure planned (?) for ourselves today. More on that tomorrow.