Day of NO Misadventures!

Fun day with Gram on St Simons Island!  Only in the 50's today with a wind, so we wore several layers.  First was lunch at Barbara Jean's...one of the restaurants I found that has a gluten free menu...I had a double-sized salad with grilled catfish which is a fish I don't eat very often...quite tasty.

Next we took a cold and windy two hour trolley ride around the island...I think we ended up on our third choice of trolley tour but we still enjoyed seeing the sites to decide if there was anything special we want to revisit.

More shopping--a new sweater for Pippin and souvenirs for the grandkids (pretend you didn't just read that if you are reading this M&J!)

By now I was feeling a bit peckish so we stopped into a little bar and I had a plate of Wild Georgia (peel and eat) Shrimp!  Quite delish!

Made our plan for tomorrow and then back again to our little home-away-from-home!  A whole day without any misadventures!

Note:  It sounds like I'm the only one who ate but I didn't think everyone would want to know what everybody had! (Of note were Gram's Cheesy Grits and She-Crab Soup, Steve's burger & fries and fried clam strips with a beer!!!)

St Simons Island, GA

Today was our first day to spend with Gram on St Simons Island off the coast of Georgia (the island next to Jeckyl Island).  

We started our day with trying to find a car wash, because our shiny black car was literally gray with all the dirt, sand and salt it was pulled through from CT.  Well, our misadventures started right there because when we found one, I talked Steve into the deluxe car wash for $10 because it was sooooooo dirty, we fed the money into the machine and...nothing!  Steve went to try to find someone and the entire little plaza was deserted!  None of the businesses were still IN business!  Now mind you, our campground office sent us there!

We had to swallow that ten bucks!  We proceeded over this very big bridge over to St Simons and found Gram's condo.  It's really cute, the only thing wrong with it is there is a 15-30 minute drive to get to any beach depending on traffic.  This was going to be our nicest day for the beach, so that's where we headed.  

It was cloudy at first but then they parted to a nice sunny day. (I even have a pink nose and cheeks!). Steve took some photos of the beach and of a giant container ship that looks deceivingly close to the shore. Then lunch at a place right off the beach, and  shopping in some of the little shops right there adjacent to the restaurant!  A fun day!

On the way back to our campground, we found another car wash and finally got the deed done!