Mardi Gras Weekend Camping Trip-Gulf Shores-Feb. 2009

Randall, Camp, and I left last Friday morning heading to the Gulf Breeze RV Resort to spend the long Mardi Gras weekend. After eating lunch in Foley at Ruby Tuesday, we arrived at the campground around 1:30. Set up was easy enough. Soon after setting up, I met our neighbors on each side of us. George and his wife, from Wisconsin were on one side of us and Jim, Lavonne amd Little Bit Lutz from North Dakota were on the other. One of the great things about camping in this particular campground at this time of year is that there are so many snowbirds there living anywhere from 2 to 6 months. There just seems to be something super special about these people. They are all incredibly friendly and just a joy to get to know.

This camping trip was not the greatest due to the fact that I had to go to the urgent care clinic on Sunday after I just kept feeling worse and worse. I never really ever felt good after having the flu the week before, but kept thinking I would eventually feel better as time went on. Well, I felt worse instead of better and I suspected that I had developed pneumonia. Sure enough, after spending 4 hours at the clinic and getting chest x-rays, it was determined that my flu had turned into pneumonia. The doctor put me on 4 medications. Not a great condition to have when you are trying to vacation!

In spite of all of this, we still had a good time. We went to the daytime parade in Foley on Saturday. Man, is this parade crowd different from the crowd in Mobile. This crowd consisted mainly of retired snowbirds and local older people. Only a few children were in the crowd. We ate dinner one night at Live Bait in Orange Beach and then walked right outside the restaurant to watch a parade on the main street. We ate at Hazel's one morning for breakfast and at the Mexican restaurant in Foley one other night.

We made the decision to leave our RV in storage there at the campgrounds. It is cheaper there than it is here in Mobile and Gulf Shores is probably the only place we will be camping this Summer. For $10, they will pull our RV out and have it sitting on our camp site when we get there. Nice! I look forward to feeling better the next time we go. There was a lot more I would have liked to have done, but just didn't feel up to it. I felt really sorry for Randall, because it is no fun vacationing with a sick person!