Last days in Mobile going to Montgomery Al.

Fri. 12 of us toured around Gulf Breeze Al. We ate at Lulu's Berger and Seafood. As you can see in picture below they have big hamburgers. Lulu is the sister of Jimmy Buffett.

                      We went to the beach to walk the pier and watched the folks catch sheephead.

On the way home we stopped by a house that was featured in House and Garden mag.  It is a Bed and Breakfast and looks like a doll house .

We ate at T.P.Crickmier's the floor around the bar is all done in pennies. The staircase was beautiful.

Mon. We went with the Fosters to Montgomery on the way we stopped at Priester's Pecans.  They had a buffet and lots of  pecan samples. We are staying at Faulkner University and it has changed in the last 25 years.

 Below are some of the pictures of the places we toured in Montgomery on Tues and Wed. below is the State Capital Building.

 2. the first white house of the confederacy.

the Biscuit's who are a AA team of the Rays play

           This is the Archives where they did a neat job showing the history of the area from the Indians to now

                                                                     we took a tour of the city

                                       we did  not go on the tour but the gift shop had lots to see

                                                 this was the old train station lots of history there

It does not show it but this is a building inside a building.  It was the 3 story Federal Building which they  were not allowed to tear down (one on the left) and so they built a 11 story building over it(building on the right).

                                        This was at a catfish place we ate at before church.

Second Week at Mobile Christian School

Thur. We had our devo afterward Linda went to paint and I went to the dump to get rid of the carpet.  We pick-up a ditch witch and dug about 200 feet to run a elec. line.  We glued all the pipe and ran a string in it so Mon. they can run the elec. wires.  I then filled all the dirt back into the holes. That night we went back to church for a meeting about dyslexia.  Both of us learned alot and were surprised that so many children have it and do not get tested.

  Fri. we got up and drove with Charles and Janice to Gulf Breeze, Fl.  We went to Fort Pickens a fort from Civil War, WW1 and WW2.

 After driving around the area we ate at Peg Leg Pete's we both had grouper sandwich and it was delicious.  We then drove to Gulf Shore Al.  All of the area on our drive was interesting.

Sat. We got up and went with a Charles and Janice to eat breakfast. After lunch we drove to downtown Mobile.  We were surprised to find a St Patrick,s Parade going on. It was a rainy day and not many people came for the amount of things they threw to people (beads, stuff animals, moon pies, carrots, cabbage, potatoes, and more).

Picture below is the Battle House Hotel 1908.  There was a period of 30 years it was empty luckily the Tiffany glass was not damaged.  It is a beautiful Hotel and I would have loved to see it in it's glory days.
Picture below is redone Fort Conde.   The original fort was taken apart after it was found that it didn't serve a purpose any more and was using good land.  They found the original foundation when the were digging the tunnel under the bay.

Picture below is the Spanish Plaza where they had many tiled benches, water fountain and some stautes here is one of  Hernando De Soto.

Picture below top left corner is the A&M Peanut Shop top right four pictures is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. 3rd row first two some of the multi. colored houses next two the skyscrapers with and without fog.  Bottom row some pictures we took going around town.

Mobile is not different from anywhere else it has oyster shells painted and placed all over town.picture below

Mon. I led the devo and told about St Patrick's day. Handed out beads after I told them how it all got started. Then thru Thur. we worked on different projects at the school. Below is the finished room.

                               Below is the concrete we pored and the fence we built around the dumsters.

  This was one of Linda's paint projects they took down the images and painted repainted them and the wall.

Sojourn in Mobile Al.

Thur. we drove to Mobile Al. We got to the church early and got set up.  We had a nice visit with everyone and played cards with Charles and Janice. We each one a game. Fri. we worked on the rig a little and got the phone to work with the Internet.  After many calls to Verizon I found that I did not have the Internet button on. All it did was mess up Linda's phone. Sat we got up early to go to Panera's so we could download the latest for the phone.  It was over 1 1/2hours into the update program when we got kicked off for the lunch group! So we need to fine an internet that we will be at for five hours!!  We went over to the other church that the sojourners are staying at and played cards.  Sun. after church we went to a BBQ place for lunch.  We came home rested then back to church.  Mon. we meet at Mobile Christian School.  We have many things to do there as a group.  Here is the old church building that we are making into a multi. purpose room.

We took out the pews and took them to storage 1/2 hour away.  We can only get three pews into the trailer at a time.  It took two days to get them all over there.  After we ate dinner we played cards and the girls won big the last hand. Tues. as I said I helped move the pews and Linda spent her second day painting in the gym. Wed. Linda painted some more at the gym and I patched all the hole in the new multi purpose room.  We went to one of the churches Wed. night meals then to mid week service.

Brighton's birthday and our last week in Fla.

Thur.  We came to Tam's, Linda got a special dinner for Brighton's birthday ready while I went and picked up the boys at their school.  We had a wonderful dinner and the kids open gifts from Shannon.  We signed and released balloons. We bought them a small round butterfly table for there new chairs on the porch.

Fri.went to a RV show in Deland drove to Orlando for lunch at Jason's Deli.  We met Hope at the ice rink and we went ice skating with her and her school mates.  When we got done we took her home so she could get ready for the Daddy Daughter Dance.  Kenn and Hope had a great time at Olive Garden and the dance. Tammy, Linda, and I took the boys to the open ceremonies for their baseball team. We spent the night.

Sat. Kenn and I went to the men's breakfast at their Church.  We left there to go to Hope's first archery meet. The guys left there for lunch then baseball practice before the game.  After the game we came back to Tam's to watch the kids while Kenn and Tam went to a  fund raiser for Hope's school. Then back to our own bed.

Sun. after church we meet Tam's family for their Lego club movie party.  They went swimming, had hamburgers and hot dogs for lunch then showed the Lego movie they made.  Brendan's group did a movie on the tsunami.   They did alot of research then made there movie.  Bryce's group did it on the tornado's we enjoyed both movies. After the party went to their church for a fish fry fund raiser for the Bible bowl.

Mon. we drove to Tall. Mary came over with Pizza and a salad.  We played cards and had a nice talk.

Tues. Was not one of my better days.  I put $86 worth of gas in the diesel. After alot of running around we got the truck towed and fixed then meet John and Mary at the new movie "SON OF GOD". All of us enjoyed the movie.  Wed We drove to Niceville Fla.  We went on two of the walk paths they have at Fred Cannon Rocky Bayou State Park.

 Linda on the bridge which use to be a lake that they put back to natural settings and now is a small stream of water.  Below is called deer moss.

              There were different oaks' palmetto, pine, and magnolia(see picture below) trees.