Week of Jan 28th thru Feb 3, 2013

Monday was our only grandson, Noah's birthday and it is hard to believe he was 11 years old.   He had a "sleep over" on Saturday night with 7 other boys and I am sure from the reports from his Mom, none of them got much sleep. In fact Noah told us on Monday when we talked with him that he passed out on the couch on Sunday afternoon.  He is growing up too fast but is a good big brother to his 3 little sisters.
We left the Destin area on Tuesday and moved over to the Elberta Alabama area.   Nice little campground and the people are friendly.  There are peacocks that make a wide sweep around the park each morning. Now most of you know I don't like birds, chickens or anything like that with beaks and feathers but these are beautiful as long as they are outside and I am in the motorhome.  The weather has not been as warm this week as we would like and we had rain and lots of WIND a that awful storm moved thru this area but thankfully most of the worst of it was a little north of us.
We have just done a little exploring to see what is in this area and found some interesting things. There is a small family owned cheese making business and we checked that out and found the best blue cheese I have ever eaten.  Larry asked the lady if everything was done there and she said yes, cows out the back door and cheese out the front door. 
Foley , Alabama has a wonderful train museum that we checked out. The model train exhibit is just amazing.
We went over to the Gulf Shores State Park to check out what area we would like to be in depending on the availability of sites when we check in today.  We are hoping to get a lot of bike riding in this week and also a few projects done in the motorhome.  Of course this afternoon and evening we will be watching the Super Bowl and cheering for the Ravens. 
We have done a little game playing here in the park with some of the people and have enjoyed it.  First night here we played Farkel and last night we played Bingo.   We about broke even as I won 2 games of Bingo.

I forgot to mention that we went back to the same bakery that we visited last year with Larry and Tracy Saulsgiver to purchase a "King Cake" which is a large part of Mardi Gras and we have enjoyed it very much.