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 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 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 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.
