Scary thunder & lightning!

Before I get to the thunder and lightning, must tell you that we continued having a fun visit with Dottie and Linda.  On Wednesday they took us to Knoxville's Market House.  We went through a few interesting shops and of course stopped for coffee and chocolate (oh my)!  We also went to the Mast General Store.  A cool shop with clothing, shoes, hiking gear, kitchen stuff, candy and more! 

From there Dottie took us to Chandler's for "soul food"!  They have all the fried southern foods such as chicken, okra and fried green tomatoes!  They had yummy marshamallow sweet potatoes!  Everything was so good for us (NOT) but very yummy!

On Thursday Dottie came out to the campground for dinner and to meet Maxie (as she calls him)!  He really enjoyed the attention (and special treats Dottie would sneak to him)!

Yesterday we left Knoxville and made it back to West Memphis, Arkansas about 400 miles.  We got an hour back so it didn't really seem like a long day.  We are parked right on the Mississippi and as I mentioned thunder and lightning, we had a front row seat to the biggest, loudest storm either of us have ever seen!  There was thunder, lightning and hard rain.  We got up at 1:30 a.m. to watch because it was so loud and bright and "Maxie" gets very nervous!   When we first got up this morning at 6:30 it was cloudy but a short time later the "show" began again!  Not sure if we are going to get out of here today or not!  We turned on the weather channel and there is a tornado warning close by.  When we first got here it was only a watch!

No tornadoes yet..."Ain't Life Grand!"