First day in Indiana

Our plans near elkheart were to see the quilt gardens and murals as well as see some fairs....

the largest fair was in Nappannee and so we headed down... discovered we were on the parade route with most of those 25,000 amish folks staring at us as we drove by (we took the smart car - lots of double takes). ... and we decided to head out to the airport where part of the fair was to be held, but we were to ealry. By this time the parade route was closing so we decided to cruise to another fair. Along the way we saw a sign for a russion orthodox church fair....several large country blocks and twists a turns we were at a tiny church with a great little fair.

The kids put on a traditional dances - the church itself was bright and colorful, full of icons and images... no photos of it though...seemed disrespectful to photograph inside

Stopped in at the RV "hall of fame"... a museum of RVs. There were some interesting RVs but the presentation and selection was a cross between marketing and ...

The creation above is a one off homebuilt RV - not really representative of anything although it was unique. I waited for a salesman to show up to make the sale, didn't happen though.

In the afternoon we looked for Garden Quilts...and found one of the in a garden being built in a public water supply "well head" field.

And further up the road we found one in a commercial nursery - which also had some really interesting models of houses and water towers - not sure what the scale was - but the were big!