After the kids and I finished breakfast, we decided to head back to the big shows before Trish woke up.  The kids wanted these $15 miniature samurai swords they had seen at one of the booths.  I purchased an awning shade that attaches to the awning track and hangs down to provide a shaded seating area in the winter when the sun is so low that the awning shades only the RV, not the area in front of the RV.

Pictured below is the installed awning shade, as well as a 16 foot wind sock pole and wind sock that Trish was eyeing yesterday.  We installed it without her knowledge and called her outside.  We all love the bit of whimsy it adds to our RV:

We decided to do home school outside to test the awning shade. It does cut down the sun quite a bit, though I think I’d like a shade that cuts out even more:

It’s not Manhattan at rush hour, but it’s amazing what happens on the road when a 3,000 person town swells to a population of 500,000 for one month a year: