Park #5 Old Town Campground

Wow - kind of a busy day for us. We've moved about 180 miles further south and it's SO NICE! It was almost 70 degrees when we pulled in to our new campground, Old Town Campground. Unlike most of our parks, this is a small private campground, located about 40 miles straight west of Gainesville. We are only about 10 miles away from our next state park, Manatee Springs, which we'll be going to next Wednesday. Our intent, when we cancelled our reservation at East Bank - on the south side of Lake Seminole - was to just get to some warmer weather, and we're very pleased with our decision.
We got up early this morning - I had to SET THE ALARM! - and drove down to the Camping World in Tallahassee. We had a 9:30 appointment and were out of there about noon, about $250 dollars poorer. But that's OK, because supposedly we will now have local TV channels. They put a new "head" on our antenna - that's the part with the blades or whatever you would call them. That was only about $60, but these places charge over $100 per hour for labor. Actually, at this point I don't know if the "operation" was successful because this campground, Old Town, actually has CABLE! OMG! As I type this, we have ESPN on - Dave is thrilled!
We had a bit of a fright on the drive from Tallahassee to here (which was about 2 hours). I was glancing at the little dashboard screen that shows the picture from the camera on the rear side of the rig. I thought the kayaks looked a little "weird" and asked Dave what he thought. First he didn't think anything was wrong, but the more he looked the more he kind of noticed it too. We ended up pulling over to the shoulder of the road - thank goodness we were on a 4 lane divided highway (our old friend US 27) so cars could easily get around us. Sure enough, the stupid kayak cradles had somehow gotten all kitty-wampus and the back brackets had slid way over the the side - this means the kayaks were beginning to sort of slide off the back of the car - VERY SCARY! We had to completely take the kayaks off the car, lay them on the grass on the shoulder of the road, and fix the whole kayak cradle thing. Of course, when we got started again we were both totally paranoid and we ended up pulling over about 5 miles later to check on them again (...they were fine). Fortunately we were only about 15 miles from our campground so everything's fine. We will be driving around tomorrow with the kayaks on the car, but we'll just keep a really close eye on them.
We're looking forward to our time here - one week in this campground and one week at Manatee Springs. It looks like there's lots of stuff to do, plus I went online and gotten tickets for a women's basketball game next Thursday and a men's game the following Tuesday at Gainesville - the home of the University of Florida "Gators". This will be the "biggest" game we've been to - quite a bit bigger than the LaGrange College team! - so it should be a LOT of fun. It's supposed to be in the mid 70's tomorrow (YAY!!) so we're planning on heading out to Cedar Key for the day. More later...