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Sights of California – as through B

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As one of B’s last trips, he got to travel to California.  I can’t tell you how jealous I was.  I only wish I would have had more vacation at work, because it would have been really nice to travel there.  
My family lived in Yorba Linda when I was really young, and that was the last time I’ve been out there.  I just want to travel.  I want to make it to everywhere.  You are only put on this planet for a short amount of time, and I’m all about getting every ounce out of it that you can.  Sometimes you have to do the responsible thing, but I will be kicking myself for not coming down with some super bug during this travel week.  
Like any good hubby of a blogger, he took pictures of the food that he ate (which will come later.  He has to be willing to sit next to me for an entire blog post for that one to happen), but he did get some really great shots of his surroundings.  I hope you get to live vicariously through these pictures, like I did.

I can’t wait to show some of the food from his trip.  That guy is not afraid to eat anything. 

More Mobile Seafood? I think so.

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After a night of drinking and dancing, the next thing I’m thinking about is food.  I’m sure there is no surprise there.  So after showering, we hit the car fast, because we knew if we didn’t get out of downtown we would be blocked down there until the next parade was over.
Good news?  We did get out.  Bad news?  We got stuck at a light waiting for all the floats to approach the starting line.  So we eventually made it to lunch around 1pm . I was starving.  And I needed grease.  And caffeine.  I was getting grumpy.  I am told that I get grumpy when I’m hungry and when I’ve missed my morning caffeine.  So you can imagine how upset I was this morning.
Our Mardi Gras host told us about a place with great po’boys, so instead of hitting a place with cheeseburgers (what I was craving), we decided to go here; Yes suck sucky picture, but that says R&R Seafood Restaurant.  At least you can see how gorgeous the weather was…
 He wasn’t joking about the po’boys.  They were delicious.  As were the parmesan oysters.  Best thing about the Gulf is of course, the oysters.  This place was best known for their crawfish, and we were the only table in the place without them.  But honestly?  Hangover = fried food.
I just wish we could have stayed longer.  🙂

USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park

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I don’t even know if this post requires too many words.  This was a great way to spend our last day in Mobile.  My dad can tell you that I used to hate being dragged to museums.  It was so boring, and I would just end up walking around not really paying attention or reading anything, and praying that it would all be over soon.
Not so much the case in my old age.  I actually spent the money to do this awesome tour.  It’s an actual battleship, still in the water, and you get (yes, get) to actually walk around on it.  Plus, there’s a fantastic aviation center and a submarine.  One of the coolest things on the planet was actually having a war vet inside the submarine to tell us how they lived in there.  There were over 72 men, in a very, and I mean very, cramped space.  But he did say there was an ice cream machine, and they could eat all the ice cream they wanted.  Very very cool.  

For more on the park, visit here.

Felix’s Fish Camp – Mobile

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You didn’t honestly think that you were not going to get food posts from Mobile right?  I mean on the Gulf = awesome sea food.  So awesome that we did it twice.  
We were searching for some great stuff from the minute we left Birmingham.  B and I.  We love being near the beach; any where that smells of salt air and where we can walk in sand is pretty much our heaven.  I guess you could say our dream retirement home will be on the Gulf.  I mean, nothing prettier than the water and sand of the Alabama Gulf Shore.  One of the things that I would have missed moving to Austin would have been being only four hours from that amazingness.
Good with the bad though.
So of course, we consulted our best friend Yelp! and he told us about this great place, Felix’s Fish Camp.  And it was definitely all those amazing reviews it had and more.


One icky think about this place; Bloody Mary was no good.  Too much pickle juice and citrus.  Not to even mention the name of it was “Red Tide.”  Just not very good at all.  I made B finish mine.

B had the crabcakes over fried green tomatoes with fritters and succotash.

I had the soft shell crab panini.  So delicious.
After this we headed to check in to the hotel.  We had brought flasks (those call out things take forever!), and decided we needed some mixers and a case of beer.  We walked to the convenience store next to the hotel and they were charging $23 for a 12- pack of Mich Ultra.  Um, no.  So we got in the car and headed to a CVS.  That we’re both pretty sure almost got robbed while we were there.
Plus their credit card machine didn’t work.  Again, thanks to my handy dandy hubs, he had cash and all was well.  We were just glad to get out of there.  Before it almost got robbed again.

Mobile Mardi Gras

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Of course. 
It wouldn’t be be if I didn’t post about Mardi Gras, or do something to celebrate this.  One of B’s roommates from college is in a Crewe in Mobile, which of course includes an amazing parade and a ball!  And what girl doesn’t love a good excuse to dress up and be beautiful?  
So we drove down there, enjoyed a fantastic lunch, some Mardi Gras beverages and then hit the parade.  Where we caught the best throw ever!  A gigantic stuff weenie dog that says, ” I love you this much on it.”  Not joking.  And of course caught the more normal Moon Pies and beads.
Here’s a couple from the weekend.  Again, excuse me not being very photogenic.  I looked amazing in person, I promise!  Or at least that’s what B said.  I didn’t catch any of the actual floats; sorry, I was too busy trying to catch everything!

B’s friend Trent who was on the George Harrison float.
Free food.  Free booze.  Can’t get much better than that.
Hope y’all have a great Mardi Gras!
Laissez les bon temps roullez!!