March 24, 2012

Alarm went off at 5:30, OUCH!!!  Well, we have three states to drive through today and many hours ahead of us…..Pam and I got up and got going, unplugged and took off.  This RV was full of sleeping children and they did not start to open their eyes for a while…..

....leaving New Orleans....

Thank you for phone calls to make sure that we are safe when you noticed we missed a couple of days adding our blogs in…..we just either haven’t had wifi or were so tired we couldn’t function at the end of the day…not to mention my stomach issue…..

........entering the state of Mississippi.....

One quick stop to see the coast of Biloxi, Mississippi (we jumped

.....seeing the Gulf of Mexico for the first time......

out at the beach and collected some sand and a few shells….very pretty beach with white sand and water as far as the eye can see, although Christian swore he could see Florida and its giant peninsula).....

not far from the border of Alabama is Mobile and we found the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park and Christian was so happy….It was an unexpected nice surprise that it was right off the freeway and this unplanned stop turned out to be quite the hit with Christian!!  He ran all over so we could take pictures of all of the cannons, boats, and tanks….then we were back into the RV to drive some more…..as soon as we got back into the RV, Christian ripped open his new military play set (complete with army guys and vehicles) eager to check out his new guys….so funny!!   So today’s recap would be:  many miles, lots of gas, potty breaks where there were no working women’s restrooms, gas tanks without working computers and the worst of all, THERE IS NOT A SAFETY SEAT IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA!!!  What kind of state doesn’t have safety seats in the restrooms???  At one of our gas stops we found yet another malfunctioning restroom and we all needed to go….so we ventured over to the Holiday Inn Express and Suites on Spooner Rd. in Quincy FL….the gentleman at the front desk was very agreeable to us using the restrooms and even gave the kids fresh out of the oven chocolate chip cookies!!  I Highly recommend this hotel as the stopping point to spend the night if you are ever driving from New Orleans to Orlando.  It is the midway stop and it is very clean!!! Wish we could have stopped and slept but we have places to go and people to see.....