On Friday, we visited the Gulf Breeze Zoo. It was very expensive but it was a nice zoo. For the four of us to get in, ride the train, buy animal food, bird food sticks, and rent a wheelchair was $96. But it was really worth it. We really enjoyed having the birds land on our sticks. Sometimes we woud have three birds on our arms as they tried to get the food on the stick. We also got to pet and feed a lot of the animals.
After going to the zoo, we stopped at a clothing store. Tom wanted to buy me a nice outfit but I just couldn't find anything that I liked or looked good on me when I tried it on. It was comical, because Tom and I had different ideas on what shirts and tops matched with each other. In the end, though, I felt bad that I couldn't find anything because Tom really wanted to get something nice for me to wear.
We went back to the beach house for the afternoon and ate sandwiches for lunch. For supper, Tom grilled handburgers.
After supper, we went to the beach and took family pictures. Stephanie and I left after the pictures so we could finish our laundry and get things packed for our trip back home.
Some of them stayed at the beach and they took pictures of Bradley being buried in the sand. He really enjoyed that.
Around 8:30pm that night, we realized that it was getting warm in the house and the air conditioner was not working. Wade called the owner and gave the phone to Tom to explain what was going on with the AC. The owner explained that there was a pan that fills with water and once it fills up, it has to be emptied. Tom looked at it but did not have the tools to get to the pan that the owner was telling him about. He told Tom he could send someone out to fix it but it could be as late as midnight when he may arrive to work on it. Tom decided we could wing it with fans on our last night, so that is what we did. We told the owner he would not have to worry about it until the next day since we were going home.
It was a very hot night. The next morning, we were all up early because of the heat. Some went to the beach very early before others got up, and came back to do their final packing after we were up and ready to depart. As we waited for them, we went outside on the deck where it was cooler. I didn't even bother to put make up on until we were on the road in the air conditioned van, because I knew it would just sweat off when I put it on in the hot house.
We went through Mississippi on the way home. For lunch, we stopped at Dairy Queen. When we went inside to order, everything looked just like any other Dairy Queen and even the menu board above looked the same. But when we got our food, a lot of things were not like other Dairy Queens. I ordered a BBQ sandwich and it was very running with pieces of meat. At other Dairy Queens, it is mostly shredded meat mixed with BBQ sauce. It didn't even taste the same. I was very disappointed.
As we left, I got a refill to top off my drink for the road. I sipped on it for some time and finally only had ice left. I like to take my lid off of drinks and eat the ice. Well I opened it up and found a fly at the bottom of the cup with the ice. I was so grossed out!
For supper,we stopped in Sikeston, MO. at Subway. That was a much better experience that what we had at Dairy Queen.
When we got home, we picked up Sky from her babysitter/groomer. We thought it would be better to board her during the trip, which probably was the best idea since we were with other people. She was so happy to see us when we got there to pick us up.
