On 4/8 we left Alabama and headed into Florida. We ate breakfast here.
We were immediately welcomed by a lone Blue Angel jet suspended directly over our heads in the previous picture. It was a retired one that had been made in 1954 and was now permanently suspended directly over the sign that welcomes visitors to Florida. Amazing!
We drove into Pensacola to mail some things to a grandson for his birthday and some photo albums to Ginger, Wayne's cousin. We also had to find a credit union to do some business. We had been to Pensacola once before several years back when we had flown in to attend our son, Luke's graduation from Naval Officer School. It had been December then. We found we liked it here again. It is a peaceful town with lots of oddities about it, like this ice castle on a corner in 85 degree weather. (It was fake)
We are in the deep south and have been for several states. This is Baptist land and we have been amazed at the number of kinds of Baptist churches there are; First Baptist; Second Baptist; Missionary Baptist, etc. This one is a Catholic church... an oddity down here.
Out of Pensacola, we decided to head south to Santa Rosa Island to go along the Gulf Coast, off the freeway.
We had to go across a very long bridge first. Seems like we do a lot of bridges here in the south! That's the island off in the distance.
We had left early this morning, before breakfast, and we had eaten an early one. We were getting hungry so we decided to try one of these (see below) restaurants. They are all over here in the south. Several per town! "May as well try them out", we thought. We were pleasantly surprised! Good prices and down home good food! The staff was really friendly too!
The gulf Coast beaches are amazing!! The beaches are white and always clean. The weather here has been perfect for walks on the beach and the water is warm. This is one of those beaches and walks.
We spent a good amount of time just walking and observing. This may look like a good skim boarding beach, but it was too steep for anything but short rides. See the fishing poles? Several fishermen were utilizing several poles each to try their luck.
There were boats doing the same thing, but we were told for a different type of fish.
Some were not fishing.
Saw these tails sticking out of the sand and was told by the fisherman nearby, that he had forgotten his icebox, so he was keeping them cool this way. Intriguing!!
By evening, we thought we would go see a movie, so we went to see a movie with Matt Damon called
The Adjustment Bureau. It was interesting. We had popcorn for dinner and then drove on to spend the night in Camp WalMart. The next morning we headed a little north of DeFuniak, FL, where we checked into Holley-King Lakes Resort, in which we have stayed for the weekend, went to church and worked on planning out the next several months of travels. This photo is out our rear window.....
...this one out the kitchen window.....
.....and this one out the living room window.
It is a small and beautiful park that is, much to our liking, underused. The weather has been great. Left the air conditioner on last night while we slept. It is warm and humid here. Tomorrow, Monday, 4/11 we head towards Orlando, FL where we will stay at a Thousand Trials Preserve and hope to go to the temple, Disneyworld and Kennedy Space Center. We'll be there a week or two.
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