The room is wonderfully comfortable and we really feel we earned our rest day after walking 109 miles in five days! We had a great breakfast in the restaurant and caught up on washing clothes and other chores. We also caught up on the news, and it’s all about swine flu. It sounds like it has been in the news just a day or two and we wonder how things will progress while we’re back on the trail.

When we went back to the restaurant for dinner the big question for us was: what’s for dessert? They had pie — whole or by the slice, and they had excellent fresh baked cookies, which we had sampled last night and knew to be exceptional. But we couldn’t make up our minds. So through dinner we came up with a list of Prudent and Pertinent Questions to help us make up our minds, such as: is the pie baked fresh? Is the fruit fresh or canned? Is the crust made with shortening (flakey), butter (tasty), or both (best)? We were thinking of getting a whole pie and having some for dessert and some for breakfast before heading down the trail, OR getting a piece of pie for dessert and four cookies for tomorrow. So hard to decide! We were laughing at our inability to decide and the ridiculous amount of baked goodies we felt such urgent need for.

We finally got the answers from our server, a pretty young kid who seemed new to the place. After he consulted with the cook we found out: the pies were baked this morning, with canned fruit, and the crust is made with shortening. Finally we asked him, “Well, what do you think of the pie?” And his answer sealed our fate. “To be honest with you, not that great.”

So we ended up with pie for dessert and six cookies to go.