Our first 30 hours on the Gulf Coast!

So we did safely make it to D'Iberville yesterday by dinnertime. We took a detour on the way to Pensacola Beach so Cassandra could see my kind of beach :) (a warm climate beach). She's in love! haha Okay, maybe it wasn't THAT awesome for her, but she did really, really like it. And I did too.

A couple of things from the past 30 hours:

1-We stopped for gas at a gas station just south of Birmingham that smelled like flowers. Much better than smelling like gas, and I just couldn't get over the fact that a gas station smelled so strongly like lovely flowers! I even made Cassandra get out of the car to take in the aroma. "Hey Cassandra, get out and smell this gas station!!!" I'm sure I sounded crazy. Gas stations usually aren't that good smelling. But I guess south Birmingham is different. (or maybe it's the fact that it's spring???)

2-Apparently, we looked pretty great driving down I-65....or at least that's what two twenty-something year old guys in a beat up dark blue pickup thought....

3-Just so you know, strawberries bought at a roadside stand in Florida aren't necessarily locally grown...Even when the sign reads "Fresh!!"

4-Chick-fil-A in Westfield is the BEST Chick-fil-A I've ever found. BEST.

5-Sara Bareilles's "Love Song" is played on every station, everywhere, all the time. (We've heard it at least 6 times in 3 days in 5 states, and we've only listened to the radio for a few hours.)

6-Rap is fun to listen to really loudly when you're sick of driving and can't find any station other than country. (And by the way, Cassandra has sweet rap moves. Ask her about them.)

7-The South still has fire ants. I'm teaching Cassandra to avoid them at all costs. ewww. I hate those things.

8-It is VERY windy on the Gulf Coast in May!! Very warm and very windy.

9-Dominos has been good. There are lots of "dominos regulars" here and so both nights we've played for a long time. :)

10-Ed and Irene are leaving for a few days next weekend and I'm going to be running the food prep and office!!

11-We painted the inside of a garage this morning, and for the record it is very hard to see where you've painted paint on a ceiling that already has primer on it and the light isn't good. You end up missing lots of spots. So yep, we'll be back there tomorrow finishing up that job and catching the areas we couldn't tell we missed.

12-Bed time now. I've taken a few (hundred) pictures so far. Hopefully I can post some tomorrow!

I'm having a great time so far and am incredibly glad Cassandra's here to experience everything with me. It's been so great to have her here to talk to, laugh with, and everything else. Yay!! :) Okay, I'm signing off so she can have some internet time too. Good night!