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Showing posts with label Carol. Show all posts

New Years Eve/Leonard & Carols 50th Wedding Anniversary

Breakfast this morning was good as always.  Ham and cheese omelet, fried potatoes and toast. After sipping some coffee Marlon and I tried out the stream room.    Wow I loved it,  so relaxing.  
Went back to condo and decided to get ready for today's adventures. Sitting on the lanai drinking some coffee listening to the ocean and watching some beach walkers. Marlon snapped a few pics of me while we were out there.
We went back in sat down and ate our salad for lunch.  Gathered our  gifts for Leonard and Carol  and headed to car.    Decided to go to Fort Morgan. This place has really populated in 3 years.  Lots of land for sale and lots of new places along the coast.
Stopped out at the ferry landing and took some pics of a couple of ships and an oil rig. Se a telescope so I  looked e the It to get a good look at the ships out in the ocean.

Right after we left the ferry landing we stopped and took some pictures of what is left of the Fort Morgan fort.  Since 1834 Fort Morgan stood as the guardian of Mobile Bay.
We left and have  pulled off  again to travel down this gravel road.  Took a few pictures of the landscape scape and vegetation. 
One more stop before going into town, I want to get a picture of this huge tree covered with moss.  The size of it just amazes me.

  In town now and need eggs for morning.  When Marlon went in to get eggs I picked up anniversary card from dash. Right away I saw that the gift card was no longer there.  Panic attack oh NO frantic at this point.   The gift card was just purchased last night.  Marlon was  back now and I told him the card was missing.  He started the car and started driving. He decided to stop again and both of get out and search the car.  Which we did and came up with nothing. Heading back out to the condo to look, we searched the parking lot, contacted  management of  building to see if anyone had turned it in.  I knew that would be a miracle and just as I thought NO.  Called security next , again NO card has been turned in.  I called Mickey' s restaurant and told them what happened. No one was there that could say if they could give us another card.  I mean we do have the receipt with the card number on it.   If someone uses it they will know it's not there's.   Hopefully I get a good phone call and this works out.   Arrived at Leonard and Carols and gave them the wine in which I put in a gold wine box. Handed them the card and told them about losing the $50 gift card. Thurman and Karen were there when we arrived it was so nice to see them again.
On our way to Pensacola Florida restaurant named McGuire s Pub.
  The place was packed.   I got a drink while we waited for 1/2 hour to be seated.
It was served in a Mason jar and was called Irish Wake the liquid inside was GREEN. The drink consisted of fresh squeezed orange juice with 2 different kinds of rum. My good friend Carol helped me drink it. :-)
The restaurant's decor was an Irish theme.  The minute you walked in you can't help but notice the entire ceiling was covered with one million signed dollar bills.
We were promptly seated in 1/2 hour Carol was given  2 glasses of champagne to celebrate their 50th Wedding Anniversary compliments of the restaurant.
 Dinner was served and it was so good.
 All of us took 1/2 our food home.   Feeling pretty full. On our back to Carols. Visited for a short time and then left to go back to condo.
 Fireworks were being shot off at midnight over the  ocean and we had a wonderful view.
 Happy New Years........friends.

Christmas Eve in Gulf Shores Alabama 2013

Excited to see Carol and Leonard this afternoon for lunch, and a nice treat is Thurman and Karen will meet us also.  Woke up this morning and checked the temperature outside yikes its only 33 degrees  F.  
Marlon went out and walked the beach while I started crocheting a pair of slippers for Karen.
 Time to get ready and go find Mickey's Seafood Restaurant.  It was nice to see them when we pulled in.  Leonard and Thurman met us out front while the ladies were inside.  I gave them a big hug and Marlon and I went in and gave the ladies hugs too.  It's been 3 years since we have been back here in Gulf Shores.  Carol gave us a coupon to use buy one meal get one meal free.  Thanks Carol so thoughtful of you.
After some great food and conversation, Thurman asked me a very strange question.  Could I come and take a picture of a dead bird thats hanging from a tree.  I'm thinking a dead bird Yuck.........but I agreed to do this for him.  We got in our cars and we followed them to their house on the river.  The house is surrounded by beautiful flowering bushes.  Thurman said to follow him outback onto the deck he had built.  He pointed up in a tree and there was a huge pelican that had somehow flown into the tree and killed itself.  I started taking some pictures for him. When I was done we all stood around and chatted. Marlon and I went back out to the condo.
 Marlon and I watched the sun go down from the lania and drank some wine. It started to feel cold so we went back inside. By the time donner was ready we had already drank the bottle. :-)  Thank goodness we brought a few bottles with us.
After we watched the sun go down Marlon started making shrimp and grits for our Christmas Eve dinner.  We opened up a bottle of Elizabeth Spencer wine and had this with our dinner.  I finished up the slippers for Karen :-)  I also sent them the pictures of the dead bird to Karen and Thurman so they could see what exactly the bird looked like.
After eating we decided to go ahead and open our presents. It's time to go to bed because we are getting up early to watch the sun come up.