Day 3, and two almost dead

Sunday, April 29, 2007
9:27 Fort Wayne, 8:27 Alabama


It’s sunny here! Yippee! Our campsite is freakin awesome. We’re about 50 feet directly across from the pool and playground. So that’s what we did this morning. It took us about an hour and a half after breakfast to finally get to the pool. The water was freezing at first, but you know us, we finally got in –after about three seconds.
The peoples’ accents here are so darn funny! I’m not trying to be ugly or anything, but they are! I’m already starting to think in the Y’all conversations and have to force myself not to talk that way. It’s so easy to! Just wait till I see ya’ll again, it’ll be something funny!
We lazed around the pool till lunch, and then walked the whole 50 feet back to the RV. What a work out. My mom was worried about us getting to much sun, so after lunch we stayed inside the RV for a bit. Tatum and Katty went across the street to the playground, my parents talked to their mothers, and Darby and I hung around doing squat.
One of the other lovely things about Gulf Shores is that they have a bike trail connecting the town. It’s kinda like the one in Fort Wayne. So we decided to take advantage of it. We rode into town on the bikes, stopping at the same store we did last night. I bought some jewelry (hey, I couldn’t resist, and it was a good price), my mom bought some jewelry and a bathing suit, and Katty got a snorkel, mask, and flippers.
Oh, I failed to mention the Surf n’ Style. It is obviously popular here. They have four shops within a block or less of each other. You can see all of them by just looking around! And these aren’t little stores. They are HUGE! Three stories high, and they all have the same architecture, signs with the sales, and from the looks of it, the same interior design. It’s ridiculous.
We headed to the beach after shopping, around 4 o’clock. The water was surprisingly warm for it being April. We hung around, searched for shells, and Katty tried out her new snorkel and fins. They had tons of little sand dollars in the sand. And in mean little. Most were smaller than your pinkie finger nail. Ya, small huh?
We got hungry (big surprise there) and started heading back to the campground, with Darby as the lead biker. We were on the sidewalk at a four way stop, and my dad told Darby to go ahead, since traffic at our side was stopped and the walking dude was light up. Darby pushes off and suddenly a guy in a yellow sports car decides that he wants to make a right turn-right into Darby. We all yell at the top of our lungs, and Darby luckily is able to back up so the car misses her by inches. Literally inches. The guy didn’t even bat an eye. He just kept on going. We were furious.
Considering Darby and Tatum have both been in a life threatening experience the past three days, guess who’s up next? Yeppers, so tomorrow if I don’t blog, you can guess what happened to me.
We got back to the campground safely, and we all headed to the pool to wash of the salty grimy feel of the ocean. I made Jambalaya last weekend and we froze it to take on the trip. My dad heated it over the fire along with making fried potatoes. Yummy! It was delicious! S’mores were up next, with dark chocolate! It was so incredibly scrumptious. If you ever get a chance use dark instead of milk chocolate on s’mores, you’ll be glad you did. Ok, now I sound like a commercial.
None of us got sunburnt today- that’s a good thing. But, we still got a week to go and the sun’s strong. We all got brown, except for Tatum, who just gets whiter. My skin decided to welcome the sun by popping freckles out all over; similiar to every year. I hate that.

SMILES!
~Morgan~