On Sunday, June 23, we loaded up for our trip to the beach. The day before, Rylee Grace ran fever all day and night. We considered cancelling our trip, but thought we would just see how she felt in the morning. We woke up the next morning to no fever and thought we would go ahead and try to make it. We were about 30 minutes out of Mineral Springs and I decided to check my WeatherBug app and see what the weather was doing in Orange Beach, Alabama - our destination. I was so upset to see Tropical Storm Warnings for that area. I looked at Roy and said, maybe it's just not meant for us to go to the beach. He said - no - we are going - if we have to turn around and come back, so be it. So we trecked on........
Rylee Grace is all strapped in the backseat with her iPad and her coloring books and ready for the ride!
Our next bump in the road came somewhere in Louisiana. Airlife landed on the interstate in front of us so I knew it was a bad wreck. I said a little prayer and thanked God for watching over us this far. I can't help but wonder what would have been if we had not stopped to eat lunch right before this. But I don't want to think about that. I know BecBec and Nan and others were praying we had a safe trip so there's no doubt our prayers were heard. I pray for the ones who were involved in the wreck.
We spent the night Sunday night in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. And yes, I still say
M-I-crooked letter-crooked-letter-I-crooked-letter-crooked-letter-I-humpback-humback-I
when I spell Mississippi. :)
We woke up to a beautiful Monday morning! We checked WeatherBug and the chances of rain had diminshed for the week for Orange Beach and the Weather Channel was reporting that Tropical Storm Debbie was turning toward the other coast! YIPPEE! We were so pumped!
We could not check into our condo until 3:00 so Roy said he wanted to go by the USS Alabama ship. I had no idea what he was talking about, but okay - we needed to kill a little time since it was 8:00 a.m. and we were headed out with about a 2 hour drive.
I took this picture to show how fierce the winds were! Tropical Storm Debby may have gone the other direction, but she left some pretty ferocious winds in her tails......
And this is the USS Alabama. I was pretty impressed!
We received a "tour guide" and Mr. Backus read every single word and stopped at every single stop. I will have to admit that I was VERY clostrophobic (sp) and was ready to turn right back around and walk right back down that ramp to my car! I kept having visions of the Titanic. I just knew those Tropical Storm Debbie winds were gonna make us break away from the dock. I was just ready to go. But Rylee and Roy seemed to be enjoying it so I sucked it up and trecked ahead. But I can promise you that I won't be going back again!
We finally made it to the beach!!!! It was so nice to be there. Let the unpacking begin! Stay tuned for "Beach Pictures" in another post........ (notice the Red Flag! Tropical Storm Debbie.....)
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