Mona's Third Sunrise! |
Monte’s
70th birthday is this week and he decided he wanted to celebrate it
somewhere warm. To meet that goal we set
out early morning on Friday, headed to Panama City Beach, Florida. In fact, we were so early that Mona got to
see her third sunrise of the year! In
fact, I think it’s also her third sunrise of this century! Of course, she was all aglow with delight….NOT! It’s times like these that I think maybe she
might have some of Bill and Eric’s blood in her!
Cotton Bales |
We
had never driven through the south at this time of year (M&A have, but we
have not) and so it was our first time seeing the cotton harvest. As like corn and beans, they use combines (they
call them “pickers”) for harvest, but they only pick six rows at a time. The picker ends up leaving huge ten-ton bales
of cotton on the ground waiting to be hauled to the cotton gin. Couldn't begin to count how many bales we saw….very
impressive!
We
spent the night at a Harrah’s hotel in Tunica, Mississippi. This is the third-largest gambling area of
the United States, behind Vegas and Atlantic City, and hosts ten casinos
scattered along a ten mile strip of the Mississippi. Like Vegas, the casinos look like neon
palaces, but these are like the casinos in St. Louis; meaning that they are
actually huge floating barges. (Yet
another archaic law…don’t get me started.)
Saturday
morning, Mona got to see her fourth sunrise of the century. Somehow, I’m thinking this might be enough
for her until the next century. She said
that from now on she wants to concentrate on sunsets.
We
stopped for breakfast in central Mississippi.
This was M&A’s first Waffle House so Aleta decided that she must of
course have a waffle. Our food came…minus
the waffle. The three of us ate…still no
waffle. Flagged down the waitress…no
waffle. F…i…n…a…l…l…y the waffle! I guess they wanted her first waffle to be
absolutely perfect so they discarded twenty or thirty of them before they found
the perfect first-timer waffle!
After
about ten hours of driving we made it to our hotel, Marriott Legends Edge in
Panama City Beach, Florida. We were
tired and hungry so after dumping our bags in our condo we walked over to get
our first meal in Florida. Seafood and
martinis for all! That’s the way to
start a Florida vacation!!!
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