Beach Trip

We had a fun time last week. We got up at 2:30a..well, technically I never went to bed that night, and was pulling out of the driveway at 3:30a. We love leaving that early! Anyway, first thing somewhere between our house and Clanton we hit a rabbit. I know, sad, but the little critter was just sitting in our lane on the interstate and just as we got up to it, it started to dart away and well....it met it's fate with our tire. Oh it was horrible! A little ways into the trip, D & Dee-deed (my sister)needed some coffee. We went to 3 or 4 McDonald's and all of them were closed. Even the one that said the drive-thru was open 24 hours...go figure. So we stopped off in Greenville and their McDonald's was closed too so we headed on down the interstate a little ways and found another one. It was about 5:30a so we decided to wait until they opened (at 6am?). We parked in a spot and rolled down the windows because it was cool outside and sorta drifted in and out of sleepiness. Another car pulled up and we realized that it was about 6:15a. We saw them get out and the lady said.."What? They don't open until 7:00a". We were shocked. A McDonald's not opening until 7:00a???? Why had we not thought about checking the times on the door? We basically had just wasted 45m to an hour sitting in their parking lot. Of course we left and eventually found another one somewhere else down the interstate and I was able to get one of their iced coffee's. That's the only way I like 'em.

We decided to go through Mobile instead of taking the Gulf Shores Parkway exit. Dee-deed and I used to live in Mobile when we were little and she hadn't been down that way in years. So we drove on through to see those bridgey things (I don't know what else to call them) and was also able to drive over the bay and see the U.S.S. Alabama which the kids enjoyed seeing also. We finally made it to Gulf Shores and went straight to Alabama Point. We always head there first which makes us believe we are actually there. We then changed clothes and headed to the beach for a few hours b/c we couldn't check into our condo until 3:00p. The kids had fun even though the surf was really rough and Dee-deed did get stung by a jellyfish. It was surprising to us that we saw so many jellyfish. They usually aren't bad until August. The kids couldn't play in the ocean because there were so many. We spent more time at the Oasis then we did the beach.

We also rode the Farris Wheel at the Wharf (which is where we stayed) and took Meghan to Build-A-Bear because that is what she wanted to do for her birthday. We relaxed alot and enjoyed our time there. Wish it could have been longer. D & I have decided that we are going to try and take the kids back sometime this summer. Hopefully the jellyfish won't be too bad.

Funny thing: On the way back we stopped in Greenville again to go to the McDonalds and they were tearing it down. We couldn't believe it..that we had just been there a few days earlier and now it was demolished. Oh well!!