On the evening of June 15th, we left for a trip to Gulf Breeze, Florida with Tom's family. We stopped in Paducah, KY for supper at the restaurant, Olive Garden. The food was great. The salad was the best part.
We continued on our trip and played Mad Libs and a couple of other road games. (Scavenger Hunt, and License Plates). Some of the mad libs turned out to be so hillarious.
As we were traveling after dark, we hit and ran over this big tire in the middle of the interstate at 70mph. It made a very loud sound, but everything underneath the van was fine. We spent the night in a hotel in Tennessee. Most of us did not sleep well in the hotel and waking up early was not fun. At least, we got to have a continental breakfast before hitting the road again.
We stopped at the Visitor's Center Rest Area in Alabama, where the Saturn IB Rocket was on display. They also had some other memorial monuments there. It was very nice and we stayed there for at least 30 minutes.
Later that evening after a few traffic jams in Alabama, we made to our destination in Gulf Breeze at the Pensacola Beach. The beach house was beautiful, clean, and comfortable. We even had a swimming pool on the patio behind the beach house.
We went to the beach soon after getting settled in. The beach was beautiful with it's white sand and the water was very clear.
Tom stayed close to Bradley for a little while, but soon realized how difficult it was to keep him standing as the waves came along knocking Bradley down. For a little while, Tom ventured out further with the rest of our crew and left Bradley with me. Not being as strong as Tom, it was a little harder to keep Bradley standing and a few times, he fell and would have to use a gower maneuver to get up, even though I would help some to get back into the standing position. I realized very quickly he had lost independence since our last beach vacation in 2005.
For supper Saturday night, we went to a Rotolo's Italian Pizzaria. We ordered a huge pizza and BBQ wings. The service and the food were both great. After eating, we went to Walmart for groceries.
