What is the first picture on a day of rest and relaxation? Evidently the Admiral was up early since I found this picture on my camera... Well, by now you know that I did not take a sunrise picture when I was in fact sound asleep. This beautiful sunrise is a little misleading if you believe the old adage of "red sky in the morning, sailors take warning" since the weather was quite nice all day.
When I "finally" got up at 9:00 am, the Admiral had left to take the city bus to go grocery shopping, and I spent the rest of the morning working on the blog.
Like most marinas around here, the boats are a mix of charter fishing boats and pleasure craft. Several of the charter boats are 75+ feet long and carry 6 or 8 -16 foot long Boston Whaler type fishing boats on their flybridge. So, I guess that the mother ship is for transport while the small boats fish the flats (shallow waters) around the barrier islands. The Golden Nugget (upper left) is in the background.
We had lunch on board followed by a quick nap for me since Aggie Football was on TV at 2:30 pm. Well, I should have just stayed asleep.... The Aggies did not "show up" for the game. They played the Alabama Crimson Tide in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The Aggie offense, which had been ripping off yardage all season at a rate of 500 to 600 yards a game, but they managed only 160 yards for the game. The final score as an embarrassing 52-0. Like I have said before, you never know which Aggie Team is going to show up...
Well, it was "tough love", but we did watch the whole game. At least the Admiral enjoyed the Kettle Corn popcorn that she had bought especially for the game. For dinner we had planned to go to one of the restaurants in the Golden Nugget, which turned out to be a good idea to help forget the miserable football game. We had a lovely view of the waterfront at dinner (picture at right), and we even managed to have a relatively quiet dinner away from the gambling, which is hard to do. I had a grilled shrimp and flounder combo that was quite good, and it certainly helped to improve my mood. Cameras are frowned upon in casinos since not all of the couples are married ( or at least married to each other). So, I kind of hid the camera when taking this picture...
After dinner, we had to walk through the casino, of course, to reach the exit. The Admiral announced that she was feeling lucky. Indeed she was! In a relatively short period she almost doubled her money at roulette. THEN, in a really amazing move, she cashed out and was ready to leave. Well, she certainly helped to brighten an otherwise disastrous day.
We got back to Lucky Us in time to watch a beautiful sunset over Mississippi Sound. The picture at the left shows the sunset just starting. The view shows some pelicans and the new Gold Burgee now proudly flying on the bow of Lucky Us.
The last picture shows the actual sunset in progress. All in all, the dinner, casino and sunset really helped to end an otherwise disastrous (football) day on a definite upbeat note...
Just as a side note, we know that the Aggies cannot lose next weekend (they don't play)...
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