Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Camping Vacation Continued-Thurs., July 3, 2008



Randall went back to work this morning. I relaxed outside most of the morning. Randall went to Academy Sports while in Mobile and picked us up Guy Harvey T-shirts. We ate at Tacky Jacks 2 later in the evening. Nice restaurant...not far from our campground. Stayed outside for a while, then went inside and watched T.V.

Camping Vacation Continued-Wed., July 2, 2008








Randall took off today and we left to play golf just as soon as we woke up. We finished playing around 11:00. After that, we went to look at more travel trailers. Found a couple that were interesting. We're just not ready to do anything at this point. We will get something bigger in the future. We ate lunch at Lambert's and then went back to the camp and took a nap for a couple of hours. Richard and Valerie Jackson are staying at Gulf States Campground and they came over and surprised us with a visit. We had a great day!

Camping Vacation Continued-Tues., July 1, 2008





Randall left for work again this morning at 6:30. I got up, made coffee and went outside to enjoy the scenery. It was a beautiful morning! After the bad weather yesterday, a cold front came through, which is a real treat for this area for this time of year. We have really had low humidity as a result which makes things great.

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Camping Vacation Continued-Mon., June 30, 2008





Randall got up and left at 6:30 A.M. so that he could be back at the house to start work at 8:00 on Monday morning. I got up right after he left and went outside. I found that the wind was blowing around 40 mph. There were no storms visible on the horizon. Just a constant wind blowing out of the north towards our camper which was making our awning really move around. I began to worry that it was going to come lose. So I decided to go ahead and try to put it down. Randall had showed me how to do it the day before. But it seemed a little complicated. I just took my time and was finally able to get it down. After that, I sat in my chair and enjoyed the great breeze. I spent the morning relaxing by walking around the camp with Camp and walking down the pier and sitting there for a while. Around 2:00, storms began to form all around me. I decided I better listen to the weather channel and see if anything severe was forming. The last place I wanted to be in severe weather was in that little camper with direct winds coming off the bay towards it. Sure enough, there was not only severe thunderstorm warnings, but also a tornado warning in Baldwin County. I secured everything at the camp as much as possible, gathered up Camp and got in the truck and headed to the nearest sturdy building I could find. We went to a convenience store down the road. I stayed sitting in the truck in the parking lot with the plan to go inside if the weather began to look like I needed to. I stayed there until after the time of the tornado warning expired. I then went back to the camp where everything was fine. But not 5 minutes after I got in the trailer, another huge storm with great winds came up. I was really scared. The camper, Camp, and I were all shaking. When I looked outside the rain was blowing completely horizontally. My cell phone was dead and we forgot the charger, so I had no way to call anyone. The storm lasted for about 10 minutes. Randall came about an hour later. We ate left over potato sald, baked beans and ribs. Later in the evening we had a gorgeous sunset. We also went down the road and got ice cream. We watched T.V. and then went to sleep.

Camping Vacation Continued-Sun., June 29, 2008





Randall, Ryan, Elizabeth, Carter and I got up and went to breakfast at Hazel's Restaurant. Ryan and Elizabeth then took the boat to wash it to get as much of the salt water out of it as possible. After they got back to camp, Eli, Carter and I went to the beach for a couple of hours. Man, was it hot...no breeze. But Carter had a good time and that was the purpose! He and Elizabeth played in the water. I forgot to bring my camera, so I don't have any pictures of him:(. Ryan, Elizabeth, and Carter left in the afternoon. Randall and I went to dinner at Bubba's Restaurant. We ate outside because the temperature was so pleasant. That horrible storm the night before had been an unusual cold front coming through at the end of June and really made the late afternoon breeze nice and comfortable.

Camping Vacation Continued






Sat., June 28, 2008


We just hung around the camp on Saturday morning. Ryan and Carter came over to join us in the early afternoon. Elizabeth had a shower to attend in Fairhope and she joined us later in the evening. Randall, Ryan and Carter went fishing in Ryan's boat. That evening, Randall grilled out ribs and we had potato salad and baked beans along with it. That evening, a terrible thunderstorm came up after dark. It came up very suddenly without any warning. Ryan had left his boat tied up to the dock right in front of our camping spot. The wind was furious along with drenching rain and it sank all but the engine of the boat. As you can imagine, we were all sick about that happening. After the storm subsided somewhat, Ryan, Elizabeth and Randall took our garbage can out and started bailing the water out of the boat. They were able to get it out and drive it down to the launch and get it out of the water. Carter was asleep inside the camper. So Nana stayed with him.

Our Camping Vacation-Fort Morgan RV Park





Friday, June 27, 2008


We arrived at Fort Morgan RV Park around 11:00. Set up was easy. We went to Walmart to get groceries right after set up. We then came back to camp and grilled out sausage dogs...yummy! Took it easy around the camp and relaxed for the rest of the night.




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