Scary night

We went to Jody & Renato's for Halloween, Judy has been wanting to see trick or treaters for the last couple years and I think she had her fix Monday night. We drove over Saturday and went to Newks for supper, we really like their soups. Renato was busy decorating and his niece and nephew came over Sunday afternoon to carve their pumpkins. Monday night they had enough candy for the first 327 kids before running out of candy a little after 8pm. Judy moved her chair to the end of the sidewalk to let the kids know we were out of candy, they were still pouring in. We left at 8;30 returning to Gulf Shores and our own bed. Other than that we have been playing euchre, poker & Judy has been leading her water aerobics class. The weather has been real good and more snowbirds have been arriving. We have washed the truck & RV and been doing lots of small fix it & clean it tasks.

Week 1, 2011 winter Gulf Shores

Patches is enjoying it here. She likes going outside and loves her box which we put away for the summer & only bring out in the winter. Open windows, lots to watch & smell; cat life is good. Do you think Judy is going to shower with her cloths on or is she waxing the shower.....you figure it out. Everyone waxes their shower, right? HINT.....the old German isn't happy unless she is cleaning something. The day after the shower it was all the windows, window frames and screens. So far this week Judy has led water aerobics twice, I've played poker once, the first euchre is tonight, we've ate out 3 times (shrimp twice) & she's been shopping several times. Jean....we are thinking about you & your family, your in our prayers.

Happy B'day Judy, Arrived in Gulf Shores, settled for the winter

Today is Judy's 65th so we planned it to arrive in Gulf Shores, we are even on site #65! After setting up we headed to DeSoto's for ludin (lunch & dinner) so she could have stuffed shrimp & sweet potato casserole plus some lime pie. We stopped at the beach for the annual "hug a palm tree" picture. All is well & we are settled in for the long winters night. We started to visit with our snowbird friends that are already here. This place is almost full & it's early in the season, guess everyone will have to stop telling their friends to come here or we might not get a good spot!

Well, here only 6 hours and the rescue truck & ambulance has come in already.....and it's said that Florida is heaven (or hells) waiting room.....I think it's Gulf Breeze RV!

Renato BBQ's for the family

Today we spent the afternoon at Jody & Renato's, they had his family and us over for a cookout. Randy....you have some competition! Renato has 2 brothers & they were there with their wives & kids plus one's mom and Renato's mom. We also celebrated Judy's upcoming birthday & Judy got the crumbs.

When we returned home the peace & quite had returned, the Civil War has ended.

See yesterdays blog for an explination.

Biloxi, Jody & Renato

We made it to Biloxi & Fox's RV Park Wednesday afternoon. When Jody got off work we went over to see them & have dinner. We have been able to see them every day since we arrived. Renato has been busy power washing their home, probably pretty comfortable as it's been in the mid 80s. Fox's is at the back of Beauvoir, Jefferson Davis' retirement home on the gulf. This weekend there is a Civil War reenactment and when I returned this afternoon the war was on. The back of our HitchHiker is about 20 feet from Beauvoir and shakes eveytime a canon is fired, I ducked the first time I heard one when getting out of the truck. Lots of smoke too. AND....to keep us on our toes there is a busy railroad track 300 feet on the other side of us and it's busy all night long too.

Vicksburg, Mississippi

We arrived at the Amistar Casino RV Park at 2pm. Traveling through Arkansas & Louisana we saw that all the farmers are hard at work in their fields. Rice, soybeans & cotton. Lots of large cotton bales sitting beside the fields and the cotton pickers are busy driving their machines. When we crossed the Mississippi River into Vicksburg we were surprised to see the river so low. This is the lowest we have ever seen the river! Where's all the water? We went out for dinner as we didn't stop for lunch, on the way back I dropped Judy off at the casino. She returned on the shuttle bus less than an hour later & presented me with a nice $100 bill! Good going Judy!!!! Maybe we should stay longer????

Off to Biloxi

Today we left Chicken Creek and made an easy 205 miles to Little Rock, AR. We are in downtown Little Rock for the night. Not a fancy or scenic campground but the location is a first for us, downtown & on the Arkansas River. We'll have to remember this place and return to do some exploring next time by.