SUN, SEPT 21 - SUNNY SIBLING SUNDAY

Woke to a bright, sunny day.  John’s brother Robbie, his wife Cindy and John’s sister Beth and her husband Bob just happened to be in town to attend a wedding the day before.  We could even see their hotel from our boat, what a cool coincidence!  They came by and picked us up and we had a nice brunch together.  We won’t see them again until Christmas so it was nice to catch up and spend some time together.  They came back to the boat to check her out and off we go once again.   

There was quite a NW wind, 15 to 20MPH.  Decided since we got a late start to just make a small hop and started out for Coon Hollow Island.  It was only 25 miles away so made it there around 2:30.  We went by, yes by the Peoria L&D.  It is a wicket dam and it was wide open due to the recent flooding.  So nice not having to stage and WAIT.  Seemed so weird to just drive by the dam.  

Once we reached Coon Hollow, Molly and I stayed on Free Bird and we deployed the shuttle craft (our dinghy Marley) with John aboard.  He took our handheld depth-finder and went to check out the anchorage.  He zoomed all around behind the island and found the spot he wanted to drop the hook.  We got anchored in 10-11’ of water and the current coming around the backside of the island kept us aligned nicely.  We even got to catch the end of the Packer/Lion game although we wish the outcome would have been different!  Made a pot of chili and nestled in reading books and playing with Molly.  It was just like home, without our recliners.