Thursday, March 20, 2014

TUESDAY MORNING AND IT IS STILL CLOUDY AND COOL

We took off for a drive and to explore.  It's not raining today but it usher is cloudy and cool.  We really had a lot of fun.  We stopped in the visitor center in downtown Foley, Al and it turns out Foley was founded by Mr Foley from Chicago who bought 50,000 acres and sold parcels to his friends.  That's the way to start a town, I think it was actually founded in 1915 or so even though he started the town in about 1903.
We are about 2 inches above Gulf Shores on the map and we drove and drove all over.  We had fun at the state park, they had an observation room with some live specimens.  Snakes.  I could have gone all day without seeing snakes.  They showed 4 stuffed snakes that are poison the coral, rattlesnake cottonmouth, and the copperhead and of coarse all kinds of varieties of each species.  Gag me.
We got back to the camper and I did laundry but Jim had seen that they had posted that it was movie night on Tuesday so we bit and it turned out to be Saving Mr. Banks.  Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks did a wonderful job.  You hated her and he was pleasant.  It sure was intriguing, how they made Mary Poppins.  It was fun to hear the creativity of the songs ect.  The movie itself was totally depressing but  so was her life.  My goodness it was hard to find a bright side to it but I don't think she ever tried too.  There's the rub.



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