Later that week:
It continued raining on Monday, and while AM and Paula shopped the day away, we took the kids to see a movie. I drove and dropped off, leaving Colleen and Charlton to actually chaperone the kids; I had to go to the fish store and buy the ingredients for my annual beach seafood mixed grill.
Joe Patti's in Pensacola is a great fish house. I highly recommend it. But I advise to make sure you know whether you're getting shrimp with or without heads. I had a little brain flatulence and didn't check, which left me de-heading shrimp when I could've been cooking or marinating myself. Great sea scallops, shrimp (some of which were boiled), ceremoniously-cut sushi-quality Ahi tuna and swordfish, all grilled in the lee of the beachhouse (the wind and rain persisting through Monday night into Tuesday). The tuna was garnished with my red onion teriyaki relish, of course.
Tuesday started rainy, so I worked most of the day. It did clear up late in the day, but the water stayed rough. Wednesday we spent on Shawn and Paula's boat, plying Perdido Bay and the waters around Ono Island. Thursday was golf day for Art and me at Perdido Bay Golf Club (a "day at the beach" for me, considering how many sand shots I had to make; add in Gina and Syndey as caddies, and it was a pretty fun outing), and Thursday night was spent watching the Pensacola Pelicans get whipped by the Ft. Worth Cats (we were closer to the Pensacola A-league stadium than the Mobile Bay Bears AA stadium). Logan caught a foul ball and gave it to Gina, and Colleen got one of the Pelican coaches to give Logan another ball for being such a good guy. After the game, the kids ran the bases and talked to the players, getting autographs. We even ran into one of the Ft. Worth players (Jim Essian) we were giving grief to when he was getting on the bus after the game. Of course, we hit the Flora-Bama afterword.
Friday was a simple beach day, although AM and I walked down the beach to the Flora-Bama so she could say she's been there -- we were in bathing suits and had no shoes so we couldn't order, but one of the other patrons (from Louisiana judging by the accent) saw us and went to fetch drinks for us. There was a band doing a sound-check, so we sat and listened to "Drift Away" while having a cocktail. We drove home (all the way through) Saturday. Spent most of Father's Day at the office trying to catch up, something which I'd better get back to now.
Top photo: In the bays behind Gulf Shores on a hot Wednesday: Zane, Gina, Ellen, Anne Marie, Jimmy, Mary, Paula, Logan and Jeff at Pirates' Cove Marina behind Ono Island. Dogs run free in and around the restaurant, and the Yuengling beer is icy cold. Mmmmm.
Bottom: Mary and Ellen at Shawn and Paula's bay house. They also have a huge backyard leading down to the bay. Their boathouse is right behind the girls.
It continued raining on Monday, and while AM and Paula shopped the day away, we took the kids to see a movie. I drove and dropped off, leaving Colleen and Charlton to actually chaperone the kids; I had to go to the fish store and buy the ingredients for my annual beach seafood mixed grill.
Joe Patti's in Pensacola is a great fish house. I highly recommend it. But I advise to make sure you know whether you're getting shrimp with or without heads. I had a little brain flatulence and didn't check, which left me de-heading shrimp when I could've been cooking or marinating myself. Great sea scallops, shrimp (some of which were boiled), ceremoniously-cut sushi-quality Ahi tuna and swordfish, all grilled in the lee of the beachhouse (the wind and rain persisting through Monday night into Tuesday). The tuna was garnished with my red onion teriyaki relish, of course.
Tuesday started rainy, so I worked most of the day. It did clear up late in the day, but the water stayed rough. Wednesday we spent on Shawn and Paula's boat, plying Perdido Bay and the waters around Ono Island. Thursday was golf day for Art and me at Perdido Bay Golf Club (a "day at the beach" for me, considering how many sand shots I had to make; add in Gina and Syndey as caddies, and it was a pretty fun outing), and Thursday night was spent watching the Pensacola Pelicans get whipped by the Ft. Worth Cats (we were closer to the Pensacola A-league stadium than the Mobile Bay Bears AA stadium). Logan caught a foul ball and gave it to Gina, and Colleen got one of the Pelican coaches to give Logan another ball for being such a good guy. After the game, the kids ran the bases and talked to the players, getting autographs. We even ran into one of the Ft. Worth players (Jim Essian) we were giving grief to when he was getting on the bus after the game. Of course, we hit the Flora-Bama afterword.
Friday was a simple beach day, although AM and I walked down the beach to the Flora-Bama so she could say she's been there -- we were in bathing suits and had no shoes so we couldn't order, but one of the other patrons (from Louisiana judging by the accent) saw us and went to fetch drinks for us. There was a band doing a sound-check, so we sat and listened to "Drift Away" while having a cocktail. We drove home (all the way through) Saturday. Spent most of Father's Day at the office trying to catch up, something which I'd better get back to now.
Top photo: In the bays behind Gulf Shores on a hot Wednesday: Zane, Gina, Ellen, Anne Marie, Jimmy, Mary, Paula, Logan and Jeff at Pirates' Cove Marina behind Ono Island. Dogs run free in and around the restaurant, and the Yuengling beer is icy cold. Mmmmm.
Bottom: Mary and Ellen at Shawn and Paula's bay house. They also have a huge backyard leading down to the bay. Their boathouse is right behind the girls.
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