Early Tuesday Morning I ask hubby if he wanted to go on a road trip to Gulf Shores, Alabama.
Day 1: January 20, 2015
We were on the road at 10:00 am.
We stopped at 10:40 am at Chick-fil-a in Athens to use the restrooms and eat an early lunch.
We both ordered a grilled chicken sandwich, diet coke, un-sweeten tea (me) and we shared a large order of waffle fries.
We both had a calendar card that we used for a free grilled chicken sandwich and a drink.
Our final cost was $1.80.
We traveled US 72 to I-65 from Athens to Birmingham where we saw signs for places like Hartselle, Vinemont, Cullman, Hanceville, Warrior, Gardendale, Fultondale, Homewood, Vestavia Hills, and Hoover.
We passed through Birmingham where we saw several very tall buildings and the Vulcan statue facing downtown Birmingham.
We stayed on I-65 passing through Pelham, Alabaster, Montevallo (home of the American Village), Jemison, Clanton, (rest area) Millbrook, and Prattville into Montgomery.
We saw as we crossed the bridge the tall downtown building of Montgomery.
We stayed on I-65 South toward Greenville, Georgina, Evergreen, (another rest stop and restroom break) and Atmore.
We turn east onto Highway 287 toward Bay Minette and then we turned onto highways 59/31 south, which took us through the town of Stapleton where highway 59 went southeast and highway 31 went southwest.
We stayed on highway 59 east, which took us through the town of Loxley.
At Loxley, we took Highway 90, which took us through the towns of Robertsdale, Summerdale, Foley, to Gulf Shores.
Our first stop was at Gulf Shores Public Beach where we walked on the sandy beach.
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| Gulf Shores Beach feeding birds There were a couple of young men trying to surf but the waves were too small. |
We saw a woman with birds flocking all around her; they were waiting for her to feed them. Finally, she ran out of bread and said to the birds, “I am sorry but the food is all gone as she walked away.”
We got back into the van and hubby drove us a little further down the beach.
We stopped to watch the sunset.
It was amazing watching the sun go from a bright yellow into an orange, red as it slowly disappeared into the Gulf which took just minutes.
There were many people there just to watch the sunset, some walked along the beach, others stood under the shelter while others sat in their vehicles facing the sun.
Everyone was spellbound at the sight.
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| Sunset at Gulf Shores |
Hubby drove us to Lulu’s 200 East 25th Avenue Gulf Shores, Ala.
We could hear music and someone singing as we approached the restaurant.
We were greeted and taken to table 43, which had a great view of BAT who was entertaining the crowd.
BAT is a singer-songwriter, heavy folk, and acoustic entertainer.
BAT sounds like The Beatles, Queen, Simon & Garfunkel, Billy Joel, and Eagles.
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| LULU'S |
He had the audience singing the lyrics of many different songs along with him.
He did many old television show theme songs such as Green Acres, The Brady Bunch, The Adams Family.
We ordered the Big Fry Seafood Basket (serves 2), which includes shrimp, Oysters, Crab Claws, and Fried Fish.
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| Big Fry Seafood Basket |
The meal was served with French fries, coleslaw, and hushpuppies $30.99.
After a very good meal, and awesome entertainment we left Lulu’s and Hubby drove us to Staybridge Suite.
We checked in and took our luggage to room 315 on the third floor.
Tonight at the hotel, they were having a wine tasting so we came back downstairs to sample the different wines.
On the food bar, there was Mac & cheese, & Fiesta Salad, with all the beer on tap and soda that you could drink.
There were about seven different kinds of wines and I sampled all of them but the only one that I liked was the white Zinfandel.
It was a social hour and we talked to a couple from Atlanta, GA. They were like us getting away from the cold and sickness.
Hubby talked to another man about politics.
We finished our wine went upstairs and soaked in a tub of hot water, watched some TV and went to bed.
Day 2: Wednesday, January 21, 2015
The next morning we both took a shower, dressed and went downstairs for breakfast, which was about 7AM.
I ate an omelet, two sausage links, covered in syrup, a few walnuts, and diet coke. Hubby ate an omelet, two sausage links, ham, a burrito and drank a glass of orange juice.
We went back upstairs grabbed our luggage; looking around to make sure we were not leaving anything and checked out.
We thanked the woman at the register told her how much we enjoyed our stay and would defiantly return.
Hubby drove us back to the public beach for one last walk on the sandy beach and where I could take some early morning pictures.
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| Gulf Shore Waves |
He then drove us to Orange Beach, FL so I could purchase 10.00 worth of scratch-offs. I won eighteen dollars that were eight dollars more than I started with.
We rode back to Gulf Shores stopped at the restrooms at Gulf shore Park and then we're on our way home.
We stopped at Burris Farm Market in Loxley where we purchased a bag of Pecans/Walnuts for $10.88, boiled peanuts $2.99, Molasses $5.99 and banana blueberry bread $2.99; we spent $24.91.
We walked back to the van got inside to put our purchase in the back seat. I reached back for the banana bread for I wanted a slice but it was not in the bag.
I walked back inside and told the woman at the register she had forgotten to give us one of our bags.
She apologized and I said if I had not looked inside for the bread we would drove off without the bread and Molasses.
I got a plastic knife to cut the bread from the bakery.
We were going to stop at Peach Park for some peach ice cream and peach pie but they were closed for a private party.
We stopped at Munchies Chevron in Calera, Al to fill up with gas. Cost $35.00 price $2.13 for unleaded plus and held 16.36 gallons.
We stopped a couple times at rest stops but did not stop again until we reached Athens.
In Athens, we stopped at DQ where I ordered a chili with cheese hot dog with onion rings and diet coke.
Hubby ordered a hamburger with cheese, lettuce, tomato, onions, pickles with French fries and diet coke.
Our last stop was at Lucky’s car wash at 4:09PM spent $8.00.
We were home just before 5pm.
We had a wonderful trip, where we walked along the sandy beaches of Gulf Shores, watch the sun fade into the gulf, ate seafood at Lulu’s, tasted wine at Staybridge Suites, won $8 on scratch off ‘s in Orange Beach, had a restful sleep at Staybridge Suites and a safe ride home.
Who could ask for more?
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| BAT Entertaining |
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| Staybridge Suits bed |
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| Condo's and Hotels along the beach |
