Play time!

Renato's mother and brother Roger and his family came over for the day from Biloxi to visit and we all went to The Track for some fun.

                       Here's Renato catching up to his sister in law with Devyn behind them.

                        The herd rumbles at the downhill turn.

           After the track time Brianna & Dustin took to the air.

                   Then it was off to the horse track with granny.

                              Ya gotta take a train ride too!

And now it's time for the water bumper boats with healthy squirt guns. 

Family time

All the kids stayed in a rented condo in Orange Beach so we spent lots of time there.  While Judy, Jody & Devyn entertained and played with Brianna and Dustin Randy & Renato were busy in the kitchen.

The gangs all here!!

Jody, Renato, Brianna & Dustin are here for Thanksgiving AND Randy and Devyn surprised us by coming down too!

All three grand kids love the water so after burning up some energy here at the campground playground the next stop was the pool.  Here's Devyn with Dustin, Judy, then Jody with Brianna. The guys are not water bugs like the ladies and kids.

I didn't make it to the zoo one day but Judy took this shot with Devyn and a lemur.

Water aerobics

Judy loves water aerobics and has been leading one at Gulf Shores for years.  Most of the ladies have also been coming for years.  She told me it's pretty much in auto mode right now as the ladies have the routine down very well.

Halloween, nuts & friends

One of Judy's Adrian, MI water aerobics friends, Theresa, & her husband passed through the area so we had lunch with them and spent the day exploring with them.  Here's Judy & I at Fort Morgan.

On Halloween zombie Obama came crawling out of our sink.  I sent him crawling back into the waste tank.

Here's Don & Zola, Tom & Heather, Craig & Jenny plus Judy & I at Mikee's for this winters first group Friday lunch outing.   

                        Outside relaxing in some great weather.

We took Don & Zola to the Broken Branch pecan orchard, here they are unloading some that were just picked up.

Here's a couple shots of the orchard.  We have been going here for pecans since 2008 or 2009. 

       Here's some Alabama snow, you know what that is Jean.

While we were getting nuts we stopped at Judy's favorite BBQ joint, LA BBQ.  (LA= Lower Alabama)

Judy loves a 25 pound bag of roasted unsalted peanuts, I'm not her favorite nut anymore?

We went hunting for nuts and bagged 10 pounds of cracked pecans and 25 pounds of peanuts.

Patricia leftovers.....wind & rain

The tail end of hurricane Patricia is passing through Gulf Shores today with winds up to 35 mph and lots of rain, last time we checked it was 4 inches.  Judy did her water aerobics class this morning then we went to the Shrimp Basket for lunch.  The road to the beach was closed due to the wind blowing sand all over but we went through a restaurant parking lot and zig zagged to the beach to watch the waves, the biggest we have seen in 9 winters we have been here.

Gulf Shores!!

Here's Judy trucking to Gulf Shores.  The weather forecast is for rain and wind (leftover from hurricane Patricia in Mexico) the next few days in Gulf Shores and we aren't very excited about this rally so we decided to leave a day early and beat the bad weather.  We were planning a 2 day drive but for an unknown reason we were both up early, 6:30, and on the road at 8:45, very early for us.  It's expressway all the way and we were in travel mode making good time so decided to make the 560 mile trip in one day.  This is a new one day mileage record for us!  We arrived at 4:30 local (Central) time and were set up and visiting with our winter friends before sunset. 

Site 60 at sundown.

As a reward Sunday morning we went to Krystal's for our favorite breakfast above.
Below is the beach on a cloudy and windy day,  It's Sunday so there were more people there than we expected; although you don't see them in the pictures.  One dad was in the water with his boy.