Memoirs Of A Crazy Witch

So I took a little bit of a vacation blog break this weekend to spend a blissful weekend with my family. It was a great weekend, with all day and half the night NASCAR on Saturday, and Jack's first homemade pizza that was so freaking good, I am so proud of him, he made the dough and everything, it was spectacular, I even got to take a rare nap that afternoon,and then the Super Bowl today and what do you know...

THE SAINTS WON BABY!!!!

I was so stoked! I watched the first half and the last quarter, missed halftime and 3rd quarter due to dinner and dishes and what not, but wow, what a kick ass game!

In honor of the game I made Cajun dirty rice, black eyed peas, Cajun seasoned corn and jalapeno cornbread for dinner and it was awesome.

So tomorrow after some odd cleaning projects I will get back to the last couple of vacation entries. I refuse to upload the pics to Facebook until I finish my blogs so I need to get the lead out lol.

I hope you all had a great weekend and stay tuned for more vacation blogs tomorrow!

I am starting to feel like one of those friends who force their guests to watch slideshows of vacation trips lol...thank you to Lyon, Stag, and Ryan for your comments on my previous entries, nice to know someone was checking them out lol...

We did not spend as much time in the hotel this year over the span of two days as we did last year in a single day and night it seems, since we were free to roam without Alex. When we were in the room, it was usually later in the evening, and the second night the storms raged, the winds blew frigid and the clouds rolled over the full moon, cloaking her in dark trappings.

I did manage to get a few blurry pics of the moon, mostly in cloud cover, and Jack managed to get one single photo of her with only the thinnest of cloud cover. I also managed to get a brooding picture of the storm rolling in over the bridge we crossed to get to the hotel.

Everything in these pics were taken from the balcony of our room.

I admit the views were not what most people consider magnificent, but I love storms, especially when I am not at home for it to possibly knock out my internet haha. Last year it was bright and sunny, but this year it was a rainy and stormy weekend, but that is ok...it did not slow us down and made for some awesome photo ops, like the stormy seas in my last post.

Three more posts to go!

As I stated in my last post, it was rainy and overcast all weekend. That did not bother me in the least, although I have to admit the weather turned frigid on Saturday, and the wind was wild. We did manage to walk around the town again and do some shopping and take in the local atmosphere, and I scored myself two shirts, a green short sleeve with a vintage advertisement on it for an old local seafood company, and a long sleeved grey shirt from Honey Hole Liquors. Which is, by the way, the best name for a Liquor Store I have ever heard. More about this place in a later post.

Anyway, Saturday afternoon we decided to go for a drive out past town and see what was out there, going towards Panama City. We went though Port St. Joe, Mexico Beach, Tyndall Air Force Base, and a place called Callaway, which is basically the outskirts of Panama City. We ended up stopping there for one of the best sirloin steaks I have ever put in my mouth, and a homemade bleu cheese salad dressing that made me tear up it was so divine.

On the way, the ocean was to our left the whole drive, and the ocean was seething with windswept fury. I started getting antsy, and trying to take pics through Jack's window as we drove, and he was nice enough to pull over and let me run down to the water and take pics.

Folks, it was FREEZING, the wind was blowing about 30 mph, and in less than 5 minutes my hands were so frozen it was all I could do to make my fingers grasp the camera. However, I felt ELECTRIFIED! The wind, the rolling ocean, the waves, the dark skies...I was in the middle of a vortex of volatile energy and I loved it! Jack had to literally grab me by the hand and start pulling me back to the truck before I collapsed of hypothermia lol...

I took a lot of pics, and they all look rather similar since they are of the breaking waves, but I want to share, as I still feel the tingle of the energy they captured when I took them. SO while they may look plain, they are a reminder of the awesomeness I felt touch me that day, the Mother having a good venting session...Enjoy!

So there are my ocean pics. It may not look like much, but it is a huge contrast to the normally gentle and calm waters of the area. Hope you liked them!