October 7,2015-Wednesday

Woke to slightly overcast sky. Today is liver & onions day at the little family restaurant....Richard's favorite so of course we went for dinner. By then the sun came out and it turned out to be a great beach day. We spent the rest of the day there. The beach flags were yellow and purple which meant caution there could be rip tides and marine life could be present. And there sure was ....jellyfish. I saw several small ones in the waves, but they didn't make it to shore. Then I saw a HUGE one coming right to shore. No kidding it was bigger than a basketball!! Uggggggly!!! Everyone was coming down by the shore to see it. Luckily everyone was smart enough not to get too close. Unfortunately I didn't have the camera down by the shore and I knew by the time I would have walked up the sand to get it, it would have been gone so I was not able to get a picture. I sure wish I could have, I don't think I'll ever see another one that big. Richard was in the water, but he was able to get there to see it before it drifted away. He also did some metal detecting, but all he found was one bottle cap. They do keep the beaches clean here.

October 6,2015-Tuesday

Another overcast day, so we decided to go golfing. Well we get out to the golf course, got our clubs on the cart and got to tee off for hole 1 and the sky cleared, the sun came out...a beautiful blue sky!! Perfect for the beach. But we had a good time anyway. I think my golf swing is improving. I actually hit the ball in the air a few times.....I usually just have grounders. Richard had a pretty good game. When we got back to the park, we went down to the beach to watch the sunset. The water was calm and we got some good pictures. We tried to get one of Richard "holding the sun" like we did a few years ago, but it looks like he is under arrest,kneeling with his hands in the air. HaHa 

Sept. 5,2015. - Monday

A chilly, overcast day. Richard made breakfast out on the griddle. It was too chilly for the beach. We were going to the golf course, but they had leagues in the morning. So We went to the Emeral Coast, about 1/2 hr away, there is what is called Harbor Walk Village. It is kinda like  back home,Navy Pier in Chicago there are little shops and food places all along  the waterway. It was decorated for Halloween.it started drizzling, so we made it back to the car and did some sightseeing. 

Sept 3,Saturday & 4, Sunday,2015

Today was too chilly for the beach, so being Sat. Richard wanted to go to garage sales to look for tools etc.in the process we get to do sight seeing. They do have a lot of garage sales here. We didn't find anything interesting. We ended up in Fort Walton, so we did some shopping. We took a different route back and saw more parts of Florida we never saw. When we got back we went to church. Then we went to a restaurant called the Shrimp Basket which we had a coupon for from the RV park we are staying at. It was super crowded so we figured it must be good food, which it was. And a lot of it. We had take home left over for another meal!

Sunday another chilly day. We went from hot,humid to jacket weather in the blink of an eye! A happy medium would be nice. So we went to a huge flea market, didn't find anything interesting. We went back to the park. Richard wanted to listen to the NASCAR race on the radio, it wasn't on a channel that we got on the tv.. So I decided to do the laundry...... What fun! But a necessary chore. The laundry room is right next to the pool, so I was able to relax by the pool while waiting for the laundry to dry. Later we went for ice cream at a Tasty Freeze in Milton which we saw near the golf course we went to the other day. Hopefully the weather will warm up soon so we can enjoy beach time, which is the reason we came to Florida!

October 2, 2015-Friday

A very Happy "50th" Birthday to our son-in -law, Chris. Last night was the first time since we arrived here that we were able to have the air conditioner off and sleep with the windows open for fresh air, it felt so good. We woke to a very cool, crisp morning, certainly not a beach day again. After all the hot, humid days we have had, this sure was a change! I hope we will be able to have more beach time these next two weeks we will be here. I know, I know, I complained about the humidity and now about the cool air... There's just no pleasing me...ha-ha! Sooooo, we decided to go golfing again. Not a beach day but a perfect golf day. We had a good time. This time we played the course the right way! Afterward we ate at a little mom/pop restaurant, very good food. On the way back we saw an antique shop we stopped at and browsed around. We took a different way back to the park for a change of scenery. Where was a sign that said there was a toll booth 1mile up. So we got out a dollar to pay, but when we got up to the booth, it was $3.75!!! And we thought Illinois tolls were high!!! Needless to say we won't be taking that road again!! Later we took a ride back to Opal Beach, where the little sand crab/moles were.. We wanted to try and get a picture of them since we were told that they usually come out  at dusk. It was really chilly, we had jackets on. The water was surprisingly pretty calm, almost a little eerie, but we didn't see one crab! Maybe it was too chilly for them. So instead we took a selfie!!

October 1,2015-Thursday

First of all, a very Super Happy "16th" Birthday to our grandson, Matthew!! What a difference a day makes, we woke to a much, much cooler morning. We actually were able to shut off the air conditioner and open the windows on our RV. It felt  so good to let fresh air in!! We have had the air conditioner on constantly since we arrived here. We decided to go out for breakfast. When we got back, it was still cool and a little overcast. We decided to go golfing. It was a perfect golf day. We went to a golf course we had played on when we were here in April. It is in a little town of Milton about 1/2 hr away. We had a great day. Not a lot of people there, so we were able to take our time. We did get a little mixed up on the course. We went the wrong way and played what we thought was hole 4, but it was really hole 8! We realized it when we got to the next hole which we thought was hole 5, but we saw was hole 9. We had to backtrack and finally found hole 4. It was a good thing the course wasn't busy! We had planned on going to the beach when we got back, but the sun never made an appearance. 

Sept 30,2015-Wednesday

Another hot,humid day. The heat wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the humidity. We heard about another beach nearby called Opal Beach. It's between Navarre (which is where we are) and Pensicola. It is another beautiful white sugar sand & Aqua water. It is not a highly occupied beach because it is located in a national park and there is a fee to use it. We have a senior pass for all national parks, so we don't have to pay. The best thing is that the parking lot is just a short distance from the shore line, so it is not a very hard walk in the sand. There were only a few other people on the beach. We thought this is great! The water was refreshing. We set up our chairs and umbrella  and were relaxing when I noticed something move in the sand. Then a few more "things" moved in the sand! Well low and behold they wrere tiny creatures called sand moles. They look like the sand crab we saw the other day, but very small, about maybe 2 inches. They had tiny bulging eyes and kinda skitted on the sand sideways Ike a spider. If you got anywhere close to them (like Richard tried to do) they would what I would call "fly jumped" into a hole in the sand. Richard thought they were cute, but I thought they were creepy I don't like any kind of critters!  They were so fast he couldn't get a picture of them. I could not relax. Thank goodness a short time after we were there the sky really got dark so we loaded up our gear and left just in time because it started pouring. We found out later that those little critters are harmless and are afraid of people. They sense vibration on the sand when someone gets near & go into the holes in the sand for protection. They say they usually are not out in the daytime, but come out in the evening when the beach is empty. I DONT LIKE THEM!!! Needless to say, as pretty as the beach was,I told Richard I don't want to go back there.