Bay Point at Panama City Beach

Time to button her up for January, we will prepare for returning in February for our 6 month voyage. New Year’s Day was cold and rainy and so you didn’t feel bad just watching football and puttering. Georgia was the only team we were for that lost so it was fun watching. Thursday we rented a car and went to get our car in Mobile—3 ½ hours each way. We found that it was pretty simple in the daylight but finding our way home was a true challenge. The GPS took us one way, the phone maps took us another way and following the bread crumbs back the way we came were all options. We chose to come back the way of the GPS because it promised to get us home a full 40 minutes sooner. Liars! The GPS got us off I-10 at Fort Walton Beach, over a toll road and then following the beach all the way home. I guess the time was calculated by being able to go the speed limit the whole way. Not even close. It would have been the scenic way except it was pitch black out with gale force winds tracking the whole way. We got back in time to see Alabama and the Lady Vols lose. Oh well we learned a lot and fell on a glass of wine to sooth.

Glen the gang at Edgewater for sunset--
we could have sold our seat for the Karaoke that followed our Happy Hour

Spent Friday doing laundry, resupplying that stuff we could leave for the month, and going to West Marine. Fitz has some projects around the boat and I have some dirty windows. We went to happy hour and dinner with the Story’s and Debbie and Dale and saw a beautiful sunset. It was cold and blustery but when the sun is shining somehow it is not so cold. We went to happy hour at the Edgewater Resort (home of Debbie and Dale)—really nice --and around 6pm the bar started filling up with retired snowbirds who were gathering for an evening of karaoke. We did not wait around for the performances (which were reputed to star the same usual subjects every Friday) but they were gearing up for quite the party. Then we went to Dee’s Hide-A-Way for dinner and had fabulous Cajun dinner definitely one to put on the A list.