BLUE ANGELS PRACTICE AGAIN TODAY in PENSACOLA

We decided to go to the Naval Air Museum on the Navy Base here to watch the Blue Angels practice again.  It is a show that you can watch over and over again.  There were several thousand there today. What a crowd, but we had the pleasure of sitting next to a family vacationing here on the Gulf from Kansas.  Their kid's interest is mainly the beach and swimming, but I am sure they will find a few more things to do in the area.

This is the run when they roll over, but it happens so
fast it is difficult to get them on camera!

 

After the air show, we went looking for lunch and stopped at an old haunt, The Oar House.  Since we had told the family next to us about The Oar House, they ended up there also and we sat together and got better acquainted.  It was great and thanks so much for lunch, Vicki and Jeff!!  You were so kind and we wish you a safe wonderful vacation.

Vicky, Corey, Cooper and Jeff
See I did remember!!



We hope that you enjoy your afternoon at the beach!!  We just had thunder and rain drops here for about a minute, but now the sun is out again.  That is what the rain can be here, just flash storms. 

I promised to share what we have been doing between our previous two Blogs.  You will see that we do a lot of eating!!

Looking out our side window from our recliners.

After a very rainy week, with a lot of Sudoku, Solitaire and reading, we finally started going out again.

Some solitaire hand??

 

After the rainy spell, we went over to Fairhope AL and looked up Big Daddy's Grill on a river there.  The food was great and we left stuffed.  We learned a lesson and bought one burger the next time and split it!!

 

Gary

Broken Egg Restaurant



Another day out we stopped at the Broken Egg for a brunch.  It is across from McGuire's Irish Pub, another of our favorites.
Next we tried the 50's silver diner just about a mile from our RV Park.  We had noticed it for sometime and finally turned in!! It was very clean and nice.

Wayne's Family Diner

It does not look busy, but it was by time we left.   It was yummy and we have been back again since, just for a root beer float.

Another day we drove north into Alabama to Windcreek Casino.  Gary has his fun at the machines dropping his pennies.  It seems that my pennies do not last as long, so I usually read in the lounge area and watch the fish.  They are so pretty.

Last Friday evening we took our Loaded Potato Dip and joined our Sunday School Class at Olive Baptist Church for a Baked Potato and game night.  Yummy Potatoes, Salads and Deserts!!
The games were a get better acquainted played with M&M's making the choice for our topics.  And also we were to build castles with toothpicks and marshmallows.  It was fun with lots of laughs.

With our table proclaimed winner with the highest castle.  Haha

Then late Sunday afternoon, we went back to church to a concert with the Tally's.  It was great as we always enjoy good Gospel music. 

Minister of Music at Olive Baptist



The Tally family from eastern Tennessee

Pearl, I thought you would like to meet John, the new music minister!!  He also has an awesome voice just like Leo Day does.  Leo moved on to Texas soon after we left here last spring. 
We enjoy it each Sunday.  We have to keep telling ourselves that we are not there to be entertained, but to worship!!  Such a blessing!!

I believe that this brings you up to date on our time here.  We will be crowding in a few more things before leaving, I am sure.  This coming Friday the scrap booking group at the church will be meeting  at 6 pm.  So I am thinking that I will join them this time.  I hope that I did not miss out on other meetings during the time we have been in this area this year.  I will get to use some of the new paper that I bought on sale yesterday and make some progress on our grandson's new album with his spring break pictures.

You all take care and enjoy your summer!!

PENSACOLA BEACH AND BOARDWALK

We have not been doing much out there in the heat and humidity.  Just biding time until we can move on for more sight seeing.  I have another ultra-sound this Friday, and that is to be the last.  All is well, praise God!!
Thus I do not have much to put in a Blog.  But then when I catch you up, it turns out to be too long a Blog!!
So will show you where we went today only, and do a catch up in the next day or two.  I have to get it all in as that is our form of Journal.  Don't know if we ever told that I have having the Blog printed in hardback now, by the year.  I wish there had been such a thing back in the 70's as I would have kept a Journal that way, though would not have made it public.  But printed in hardback, it would have been awesome for the family.
So enjoy the pictures from today.  We had not been to the beach since we were in Gulf Shores AL, so was enjoyable.  We stayed in the shade of the Pier while sitting out there.  Can't handle all of the sun.



Waves bigger than when we are usually there.
Yellow flag was out, so people were in the water.

Close-up of wave.

The older girl was having difficulty getting centered on her board.
But the younger one took to it like a duck to water.

Another little girl was teasing the birds and they would take off.

But they just kept flapping their wings, while going no where.
It was fun to watch.

 When we left the Pier and beach, we went to find a place for lunch.  Close by we found Flounders Seafood Restaurant.  The Burger with fish and shrimp and cheese on top was great.  But we were glad that the waiter told us how big they were, so we ordered one and shared.  Good thing that we did as we were stuffed afterward.

Street side of Flounders Restaurant

Beside entrance.



This was huge and fastened to the wall.
Compare it to the wood grain.

The décor was neat!

Our view of some of the outdoor restaurant seating.

Remember those days??  It's been a while, for sure!!

Stuffed and happy, we drove on up the road to the Boardwalk for another stop.  Not much to see there, but we heard that there are bands to be there Saturday evening.  So we are thinking about going to that, taking lawn chairs with us.
Below are views of beach from the Boardwalk.  The stores were way too expensive, so we were not even tempted!

Band shell.

Views of the beach from the Boardwalk.

 

Couldn't pass up taking a picture of this!!  Dick, Gary thought you would enjoy it.

 

 

Restaurant inside.

Hope you enjoyed these.  Will get busy and do more real soon.
We left the beach area to head home on the northwest side of Pensacola.  On the way I took advantage of the time out using Sunday's newspaper coupons.  We stopped at JoAnn's, Michael's, and Hobby Lobby for scrap booking papers, so that I can get busy on Richie's 2013-2014 album.  It is time, for sure!!  Someone pointed out to me that there is a scrap booking group meeting on Friday evening at Olive Baptist Church.  So I will probably take advantage of that.  Wish I had known about it before now.  I could have gotten many more pages done.  But I am probably better prepared now, though.
Hope that you are all having a good summer and that it is comfortable weather.  We have thunderstorm warning for a couple days.  So we stay alert after  the floods a few weeks ago.