Monthly Archives: November 2011
Tuesday in Gulf Shores . . .
Today consisted mostly of just taking it easy. The weather forecast said to expect a lot of rain, but we lucked out with a beautiful sunny day.
So Jan, Mister, and I spent a good while sitting outside enjoying this fantastic view and listening to the ocean waves about 1/4 mile away. Jan was reading her Kindle and I was doing it the old-fashioned way, with paper and ink.
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Mister mostly laid in the grass waiting for a passing wildebeest, or maybe a gator.
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About 3:30 Jan and I headed up to Foley to have ‘lupper’ at Lambert’s Throwed Rolls, another of our favorite restaurants in this area. And they really do throw the rolls at you, and they’re huge, bigger than a softball.
After we placed our orders, we got ready for the pass-arounds.
Pass-arounds are delivered by servers in big bowls as they walk around the tables. My favorite is some of the best Fried Okra you’ve ever put in your mouth. Hot, crispy, and crunchy on the outside, and melt in your mouth on the inside.
Other pass-arounds include Fried Potatoes & Onions, Macaroni & Tomatoes, Black-Eyed Peas, and Apple Butter & Sorghum. And they’re all delicious. The big problem is filling up before your food even gets here.
I ordered the BBQ Pork Steak with White Beans, Turnip Greens, and Baby Carrots.
Jan ordered her favorite Fried Chicken with Mashed Potatoes and Green Beans.
Lambert’s is one of those places where you can eat your fill and still have plenty to take home. Our kind of place.
On our way home we stopped off at Books-A-Million to stock up on magazines. Jan and I both like BAM because they have probably the best selection around. Always better than Barnes and Noble.
On another note, I was very surprised to find that we have Verizon 4G here, still very fast.
Neat.
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Thought for the Day:
"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world." – Calvin.
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Jimmy and Lulu . . .
While we’re here in Gulf Shores, we staying at the Gulf State Park right across the road from the Gulf. You can here the waves from here.
The sites here in our favorite area are along a large lake and are half circles off the road, so easy in, easy out.
Our rig door is about 20 feet from the bank, giving us a great view of the lake.
If we don’t keep Mister on his lease, he goes right down to the edge of the water. We think he’s gator hunting.
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Brandi and Lowell sent us some photos of Landon at a park play area this weekend. Looks like he mostly had a pretty good time.
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Check out those blue eyes.
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Landon falls into the clutches of a predatory female. Brandi said he wasn’t too happy about the hug.
That’ll change someday.
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About 3:30 Jan and I drove up to the Intracoastal Canal to have an early supper at Lulu’s at Homeport.
Lulu, or Lucy, is Jimmy Buffett’s sister and has had a restaurant in this area, first on Weeks Bay and now here in Gulf Shores, since the late ‘90’s.
With its great view of the Canal, Lulu’s is one of the most popular places in Gulf Shores. We’ve watched it grow, and almost double in size in the last few years.
The food is always great here, so the choice was hard. Jan ended up having a Shrimp Loaf, or Po-Boy, and I had the Shrimp and Oyster version.
But it was important that we leave enough room for our favorite dessert – Krispy Kreme Bread Pudding.
That’s right. Bread pudding made with Krispy Kreme doughnuts. It’s really hard to describe how good this is. It just melts in your mouth.
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On another note, as it turns out I had another brush with celebrity growing up here. Well, pre-celebrity, actually.
A while back I read in one of Jimmy Buffett’s books that, growing in the Mobile area, he and his friends used to come to Gulf Shores and surf at Alabama Point.
If you surfed at Gulf Shores, you did it at Alabama Point because the crosscurrents generated by the Gulf entering Perdido Bay produce the highest non-storm waves in the area.
Jimmy Buffet is a couple of years older than me, and when I was surfing at Alabama Point with my friends, there was usually a group of older guys from Mobile and Fairhope there too. So I figure that more than once I was surfing along side Jimmy Buffett.
Who knew?
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Thought for the Day:
"Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation." – Henry Kissinger.
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