November 3, 2014 - More fun with family & friends

Yesterday Jim's cousin and husband (Ron & Carolyn Graves) joined us in Orange Beach and after a few minutes of catching up we hopped in their car and went to the Pensacola Naval Air Museum. After spending a good part of the day there, we came back to the boat and cooked dinner. Ron & Carolyn spent the night with us and left this morning. It was great to have them with us, even if for just a short time.

Ron & Carolyn Graves

Family forever!

Retired Blue Angels suspended from the ceiling

Touching sculpture of Navy dad greeting his family after a tour of duty

Sea King helicopter used by Presidents Nixon and Ford

Today Steve Sterk (Pura Vida) came to help Jim change the oil in the boat, while Sheli and I went for a walk and some shop browsing on our return trip. After those jobs were complete, we took off in their rental car for lunch at The Gulf and then some beach time on a beautiful strip of land between the Gulf and the Intracoastal. Luckily, it was considerably warmer today, but still quite windy. Seeing the Gulf with its whitecaps rolling, it was easy to understand why we had been told this is not the window of time to be making the crossing from Carabelle to Dunedin.

Kicking back, waiting for lunch on the beach. Ahhh!

Feels like a cooler version of Mexico

Steve & Sheli in their shirtsleeves, pretending it's a heat wave

Notice that we are in sweatshirts 

The beautiful Gulf with its whitecaps rolling in

Steve, showing off his physique doing his Sylvester Stallone look

Jim got up close and personal with the head of this decapitated fish we found on the beach

Admiring the beautiful blue skies with the moon peeking through the sea oats

After a brief rest and bite of dinner, we are joining Steve & Sheli at Toby Keith's restaurant to play "adult bingo" tonight.  Not sure what that is, but we're open to any new adventure!