Canyon Lake happy hour

Here we are during happy hour the evening before leaving Canyon Lake ....................

We had some visitors pass by...............

Canyon Lake COE park is very nice, we will remember it for future stops.

Canyon Lake, TX Corp of Engineers campground

We left again about 10 am for the 266 mile tow to meet up with Mike & Debra Parks and Don & Mary Lynn Gertz.

This is a very nice COE park, huge sites and ours backs up to Canyon Lake.  It's in the low 80s and sunny.  

And here's the view from the back window............

It's very peaceful here, the primary noise is the squacking of the birds.  The 8 of us had happy hour and visited after we were set up.

Travel day

We pulled out about 10 am for a short travel day, 166 miles.  We spent the night in Winnie, Texas in a small and tight campground.

That's Ron & Roberta's HitchHiker beside us.

Tobasco plant tour

Today we went to Avery Island and toured the Tobasco plant, boy was it crowded......3 school buses and 2 tour buses plus a full parking lot of visitors.  I had no idea Tobasco was so popular.

It was interesting but limited.  The tour started with a 10 minute talk, a 20 minute video and then a walk past the bottling line.  I wish we could see the peppers and vats and barrels.

The gift shop was very very busy, we have started our Christmas shopping.

Judy did some searching a found a unique local lunch restaurant.  Would you go in here to eat?

Here's the featured poboy sandwich....................

Honestly, the sandwiches and shrimp were excellent.
For an evening snack and desert we went to Pont Breaux's to listen to some music and watch some local's dancing.

Greetings Ron & Roberta

We got to sleep in and relax, Patches likes it here and has been outside roaming about.  Ron & Roberta arrived about 3 pm and set up.....in the rain.  A little after that we headed out for a late lunch in St Martinville at Cajun King.

After a good seafood meal we checked out the town.

                                                   Ron strolling down the side walk.

 
The poet Longfellow wrote a poem here, can't say I'm much of a poetry fan but the small park on the river was very "southern" with the vegetation and large live oak trees and some hanging moss.

                                                                   Mr. Longfellow

                                                  Mr. Longfellow and some visitors.

                                                  Yep, this is a BIG OLD live oak tree.

Bye bye Gulf Shores!

Our winter in Gulf Shores has ended.  We have been here for five and a half months and enjoyed all the winter activities and friends.  Some have already left and the others are getting ready to depart. We were pretty much packed and set to leave yesterday and were up at 7am getting cleaned up and finished tearing down.  We said final good byes to several winter friends and pulled out at 8:45.  It was a pretty easy 303 miles and six hours to St Martinville, LA for some sightseeing, waiting for Ron & Roberta to catch up from FL and head toward TX for a rally.  We are staying 3 nights at Catfish Heaven RV Park, as you can see the catfish have more room that unpacked in like a sardine.  It is very peaceful and quiet here compared to Gulf Shores.  It was good to see that everything worked fine and we hadn't forgotten how to move.

Flowery Branch trip

                              Before we get to Flowery Branch we have to go through Atlanta.....................

We spent the weekend with Jody, Renato, Brianna and Dustin before we leave Gulf Shores.  Happy Granny below........

We have another soccer player in the family now................

Brianna wants to play goalie most of the time, check out her face!

The happy family.