Out and About in PCB

We had a little bit of a mishap on Monday night with dinner. One of Travis' favorite food is raw oysters. Mary suggested this place called "Hunt's Oyster Bar," so we left to go that evening...and got lost. This turned into lots of driving, strong suggestions to turn around, even stronger suggestions to ask someone for directions. So he did. He stopped at a gas station to ask. He was instructed to go down even further. I swear it looked like we were in Pell City at that point. No beach was to be seen. Finally, we realized we passed it. LOOONG ago. The gas station instructions were bogus. We seriously drove for over an hour. It should have taken 20 minutes. All of that aside, we finally did get there. Travis parked (in the wrong parking lot) and then moved the car while we went to put our name in. There were some people outside. Were we okay with a 2 hour wait? Right. 2 kids. It was 7:30 already. Um. No. So we left. Without oysters. Not a pretty picture. Kids were very hungry. Tempers were short. Anyway, YESTERDAY was a new day, and we tried it again for lunch. I am pleased to say that we got there easily, walked right in, and ate. We were already off to a better start than the following evening.

Jaggar has been obsessed with the 3 movies we brought since we got here: Tangled, Despicable Me, and Thomas. Here he is watching Thomas. I turned around, and he'd done this with the case. lol

Praise!

Here is Travis' delight. I don't really get it. It just tastes like tasteless slime to me, but to each his own. Mom and I opted for the crab cakes, which were awesome.

After we ate lunch, we walked over to the pier to look at all of the docked boats.

See docked boats

Then we walked in this random store across the street where the hit was their dog. IN a beach shirt. The dog refused to leave the counter. He "knew that was his spot," the owner said, but he'd throw a fit for the kids (or anyone) to pet him. It was quite amusing. Look at Jaggar's face.

The experience of driving mindlessly for an hour the night before allowed us to pass a "Ripley's Believe It or Not," and we thought that'd be a fun thing to do that afternoon. The upside down building behind them is Wonder Works. We didn't go there, but it made for a fun picture.

This was really a good choice. We had such a fun time. I hadn't been since I was a teenager to the one in Gatlinburg.

Sage by their mini eiffel tower.

Money car. We thought it was appropriate. You may notice I'm wearing the same dress in every picture. The reason for that is because I wore the same dress whenever I had to put clothes on. I don't know why I even pack other clothes because I always end up wearing the bare minimum--literally.

This was like a digital Mr Ripley that talked to you when you first walked in. My kids just could not get enough of it. Jaggar kept going back over there to see it again and again.

This was a replica of a man that was 8' 11" tall--believe it or not!

This was a replica of a 1400 pound woman and also a reminder to stop eating donuts.

I don't know what these were, other than fun, but I will say it took us a few minutes to realize we wouldn't be walking through someone's picture taking efforts. Ha, they looked real. And Jaggar just loved it clearly.

Sage and her pirate face ;)

Who doesn't love "Big?" There was SO much in this museum: a shrunken head, 8 legged cows, 2 headed lambs, the world's smallest radio, a piece of the Berlin wall, footage of a man that could pop his eyeballs out of their sockets...but I couldn't possibly read about it all or take pics of it all. But I'd highly recommend going if you've never been.

On the way home, Jaggar let out a cry in the middle of his movie and then crashed: he literally fell asleep, no drifting. He could not hang on anymore. He slept for the rest of the car ride and then we had to wake him up 4 hours later at about 7pm. The days had finally caught up with him.