It's been a beautiful week of Beach Sitting and relaxing but sadly it's been much too short, as usual. We haven't done much this week and that's just fine with me. Ventured out to a couple of restaurants but mostly, just beach sitting. The weather has been perfect but tomorrow is going to be another story. There's an 80% chance of thunderstorms tomorrow so possibly no beach time unfortunately.
Sadly, the Panama City chaos of drunk teens seems to be migrating west. There were 115 arrests just yesterday for underage drinking. A young man died Sunday from alcohol poisoning. Very sad. Our beach area is still relatively calm although I think there were more young people here than in the past. Not real thrilled with that.
Today we went to the Gulf Shores History Musuem. The museum is housed in historic home that was moved to the municipal complex of Gulf Shores. At first glance it looks like a very nice museum. We were greeted as we walked in the door and invited to watch a video. Ok, a video about the area would be very interesting. Perplexingly, the video was not about Gulf Shores. It was a segment of "Big History" about the importance of gold throughout history. I'm not quite sure why that particular video was being shown but after about 10 minutes we decided to tour the museum instead of finish the video. I'm really not sure who put the museum together or how the exhibits were designed but it was one of the most confusing museums I've ever been to. It all looked like it went together but when I really started reading the display cards, I realized there was no rhyme or reason to the displays. We didn't stay long.
From there we went to the Tanger Outlet Mall where I bought a pair of Skechers that just screamed my name. Very colorful and tropical. Can't wait to wear them to school.
Went down to the beach around 2:00 and spent the afternoon reading, walking and snoozing. Around 5:00 there was a lot of excitement around a young man who was fishing. We watched him reel and reel and reel his line in. Low and behold he'd caught a sting ray. Everyone was very excited but the young man wasn't sure exactly what he was going to do. Luckily there was a young woman nearby who just happened to be a marine biology student who works with sting rays. She got a towel, threw it over the tail and kneeled down on the tail so the ray couldn't sting her. She pulled the ray up by its nostrils while the man removed the hook. She let people touch the sting ray and take photos before she let it go. It was very cool to see a wild ray that close up. The girl said it was a male Atlantic Sting Ray. Don't know how it got clear over to the Gulf...must be on spring break too.
We were going to fix Shrimp Creole for dinner using Lartigue's shrimp (the best shrimp I've ever eaten) but we were still too full from lunch. We just gorged ourselves on the cold shrimp instead. After dinner we decided to try out Matt's Ice Cream Shop based on rave reviews on Trip Advisor. It was delicious. Took a short ride over to Florida and then turned around and came back to Alabama.
Tomorrow is our last day here. Still want to go to the Gulf State Pier and explore the Gulf State Park a little if the weather isn't bad. Hopefully there will be enough space between rain drops that we can have one last day on the beach. Friday we are going to head to New Orleans and the National World War II Museum. I've wanted to do that for many years.
So, until then...
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