Gulf Shores Dec 29th, 2015

The storm moved out during the wee hours of the morning and when it was time for us to get up we awoke to a beautiful sunny warm day and even better the fish were biting right off the beach. The man below is from Wisconsin and spent about 15 minutes pulling a huge fish in, which once it was on land and unhooked he carried back to the water and let go.

 Well we only let small ones go, those too small to be legal and we still ended with enough fish for dinner tonight to feed this group of people down here.

 Joan got Nancy all set up with a pole then went to get her own pole going.

 Mark was helping Nancy reel in the pole when they discovered there was a big fish hooked to the line.

 Joan caught a fish at the same time. Below is Nancy showing off her big fish while Joan shows off her little fish.

 When Spark arrived Nancy had to go tell him about the big fish too.

 Below are the cheering section for the fishers.

Volley ball was next on the fun schedule. I think it about killed Nolan to leave the fishing for volley ball.

After volley ball came the boogie boarding. The waves today were big and strong and not for the faint at heart.

After a lunch break came the foot ball games. 

After the foot ball games came more boogie boarding, to cool off and get the sand off.

The rest of today's pictures were placed on Mark's facebook page. If you would like to see them click HERE.

Fedi and Greg cleaned the fish, Beth cooked the fish and we all met over at Beth and Greg's condo for potluck. We had a wonderful meal. Unfortunatley the camera decided to break about that time. I took it apart but was not able to fix it so this may be the last of the pictures. 

Rhoda sent a couple pictures from home. She was dog watching today as Emily was in Forrest, IL.

 Left to right is Darcy, Studly, Zero, Ebbie, Emma and Rubie. Below she is walking them plus Kristin's dog toward Spark and Rhonda's house. Lots of trees down.

 The picture below is looking from mom's house toward the dumpster. There are trees down all over.

Looks like there is quite a mess to clean up when we get home.