HOT HOT HOT !!!!!!!

We had another glorious day traveling on the Tombigby Waterway. We left Columbus, Mississippi at 7:15 A.M. and made our way upstream. A boat named "River Miles" pulled out of Columbus Marina at the same time we did. We ("Runaround Sue" & "Seas 2 Day") cruised with him all day. We passed through 4 locks, Aberdeen, Amory, Glover Wilkens, and Fulton. We stopped at Midway Marina in Fulton, Mississippi. "River Miles" went on, hoping to reach Pickwick today. For as many fishermen as we saw yesterday, today was pretty much the opposite. Today we spotted more people tubing and skiing, and pontoon boats out cruising. Not so much slowing down, speeding up like yesterday. There was one PWC with a man and a woman on it, riding the waves from our three boats. One of their passes over our wake brought them up and right smack into a green buoy. They didn't even slow down. They kept right on going. It had to hurt. Then we were chugging along when all of a sudden "River Miles" stopped dead in the middle of the river. He had run aground right in the middle of the channel. He got on the radio and warned us and the Mayers, and then complained to the lockmaster at the next lock about it not being marked. The lockmaster told him he would pass the information along to the people who could do something about marking the spot in the river.

Once we were tied to the dock and the air conditioning cranked up as high as it would go, we borrowed the courtesy car and went into Fulton for dinner at "Peking Palace". It was clean and very cool in the restaurant and we enjoyed our meals. When we got back to our boats, it still wasn't cool, but it's working on it. Tomorrow we plan to go into Tupelo, the birthplace of Elvis. This marina has a hot tub, a very, very small pool, and a lake. We should be able to cool off tomorrow after our trip into Tupelo.