A visit and two birthdays.

We left FDR State Park heading for Daphne. Ollie and Sam's birthdays were in April and we missed our friends. Our tentative plans for next year will have us staying out west until 2014. It will be hard to do but finances may have to decide it.  Anyway, we stayed at Maher State Park on the causeway, a park right on the Mobile Bay. We stayed there last year and it was quiet and convenient. Here is a view from our site.

This is looking across the bay at I-10. That's a 10' alligator swimming around about 15' off shore.

While we were at the park Ollie came a stayed a day with us, Kim and Barb visited with us one evening for drinks and a sunset and Chuck and Debbie came over for an evening too. (We spent time at their house visiting too.) We also got to spend time with Mo's Mom and she fixed us a dinner salad that was wonderful, while we were there we also visited with Father Deasy, he's always a spiritual uplift. Can't forget to mention Oscar, probably the most known baby in Fairhope, AL! We're sitting in Ruby Tuesdays with Sam, Leah, Ollie and Oscar and Oscar's toddling around the table and some lady across the restaurant comes over and asks if that's "Oscar from the Coffee Loft?" He's one way cool little boy, for sure.
The highlight of the week stay was Ollie's 7th birthday. We celebrated at Debbie's house, of course. Chuck chef'ed burgers and dogs on the grill and Ollie and his friends ran wild for 3 hours in the yard. The adults kinda did too but in an adult way! We did take a few pictures....

the quiet before the storm!

It's started....

Debbie bought some blow up 'light sabres', Seemed harmless until the 'war' started.

Sam and Oscar observing

Father & son mug shot

Debbies neighbor, from Spain, brought over his gueine pig... ON A LEASH!

Ollie finally got to unwrap presents.

Legos will be around forever!

Don't know what Beth could be thinking.......

 So, while Ollie's birthday party was the party of the week, it was also Easter Sunday the next day. Mo and I wanted to celebrate the day a bit defferent so we met Kim along with Mo's mom, and Debbie and Chuck at St Joseph's in downtown Mobile. It was a quiet and reverant Mass that made Easter, and our visit to Daphne extra special.

Monday morning I washed the coach, Mo got the inside ready for travel and we packed up and pulled out, heading west.