Tuesday July 1st 2014 –
Welcome to JULY! It’s Tuesday… BLOG day. I’ve been putting it off, I am on vacation
after all… and today I just stay in and
hang out. I’m a little pink and I need
to let my skin rest a bit, and I figure that I need to take a bite out of this
blog before it gets away from me. So today I got 5 days of blogging done!
It was an early morning for me – I got up
at 4:30 for some reason and just hung out on the balcony and watched the
sunrise with my cup of coffee. As the
lights come up I notice that there has been a bit of shenanigans overnight.. I
notice what I first think is a heart on the sand, made out of seaweed that was
collected. But as I look further, it’s
not a heart with an arrow, it’s a large phallic symbol (like 20 feet long) with
“Alabama sucks” down the middle. I regretted not getting a picture of it later because as soon as people became aware of it, it was cleaned up. But then what do I really want with a picture of it? Would I post it? Probably not.
As it
gets a little lighter, at about 5:00, Amy comes out on the balcony with some of her leftovers
from dinner for breakfast (Felix’s)..
and we chat… and we notice that there seems to be some of our things missing
from the beach. We had two chairs and we
can see just one, and the one that had Amy’s towel and our blankets is not
there – her umbrella is there, but moved down the beach a bit. We get the binoculars and look up and down
the beach to see if we can see the other chair, but no luck. Amy decides to just head down to the beach to
see what she can find, and immediately she sees her beach towel hanging off the
back of a chair, but it’s under one of the tents. There’s a man under there too, packing up
things into a wagon – she talks to him and she finds that all his things were
moved around too, and one of his umbrellas is gone, he thinks that he sees it
down the beach, but it could belong to someone else and he doesn’t want to take
it if it isn’t his. But from now on he’ll
be taking his things up every night – and today after we’re done, we will too. Amy suspects that it could be the same people that had a good time with the art work. Drama at the beach!
The others get up, get ready and they head down to the beach – and Logan is back –
we had missed him the day before, not sure where he was but his family was
around. Amy heads down about noon, and I just had a lazy day inside, reading
on the balcony, catching up on the blog.. The waves
were milder today and they didn’t take the gals into shore when they were out floating – the past couple of days
they’ve been a little rough (in a fun way) – with the rafts it’s a good time to
ride the waves.
It’s now about 4:30 and I’ve caught
up on the blog! The others have come in and we’re watching the USA vs. Belgium game – they’re all showered and dressed (I’m still in PJs!), well mostly, Patti is still a slacker and not dressed yet. The game is
in “extra time” .. we made it CLOSE didn’t we?!
Exciting game, and just as I get some lingo down, we’re out. It’s all about me. While we were finishing up the game I made a
quick video of the condo if you’re interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M48gJ2ixWNw
Tonight we’ll try another place on our list. With the game over we head out to The
Steamer – we’re like locals now, we know back roads cuz we’re cool like
that. We stay off the strip as much as
possible just because it’s so slow going.
The place we go tonight promises no fried food on the menu (and I think
that it’s both an advertisement and a warning to those people that want
fried). It turns out to be our favorite
spot so far (besides Felix’s). We have
the Royal Reds because they come recommended by Patti’s friend Jackie. They’re HUGE, and they taste more like
lobster than shrimp – we are sure that someone is shaking their heads because
we’re not sucking on the heads. Someone
somewhere is saying, “but that’s the best part!” – we realize that the table
next to us is laughing at us – to the point that they we’re now chatting with
them about how we’re not sucking heads.
The food come like a boil pot with corn and new potatoes (or potato
salad if you so choose) – both were really good! The slaw was really good too, slaw is one of
those things that is a matter of taste, and the reason I mention it was because
Dana thought that the slaw was “too cabbage-y”.. ummm… it’s cabbage. Amy and I order the bacon wrapped scallops –
I have a thing about duplicating orders, it’s kind of a waste of an order
because then there’s one less dish on the menu that you got to try (when you
taste each other’s food), I almost got
the crab legs (which Dana got) and I think that when we go back (we’ll probably
go back) that I’ll get them. They looked really good! The scallops were good, but (don’t tell Randy
Rhyne) there was too much bacon on them.
Lost the scallop. Patti got the
crab cakes and the really good potato salad.
Good meal (finally!).
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| Crab cakes |
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| Bacon wrapped scallops |
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| Crab legs and shrimp |
After dinner we walk across the sleep and shop a bit again – it’s just T-Shirts and local souvenirs, but we find some cute shirts and we’ll be back to that place. We're here long enough that we can check them all out and then go back to the places where we want things.
It’s 7:30 now, and we head back to the condo so we can watch “The Next Great Baker” (on TLC) – there is a St. Louis team on there and our friend Angela is friends with them (Al and Lia, the blue team, if you’re watching – Lia works at Hendel’s in St. Louis). While we’re watching I post the blogs and Dana has a frozen mango margarita (which she hands off to Amy because she gets light-headed – she’s a lush).
As the blog post, they’re all reading them.. and giving me corrections. Now, let it be known that they all we given an opp to read it and fix things before I posted them – but now they have edits (which I’ve fixed – I had the wrong people rooming together and walking down the beach).
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| Reading the blog... |
Chill’n now, watching more Orange is the New Black. Probably heading down to Orange Beach tmw to the wharf and check out Flora-bama at the state line.
I leave you with the art work from our respective bathrooms - the drunken hedonism of the adult bathroom:
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| Drunk rasta lizard... |
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| Happy dancing animals in the kids' room |
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