Day Trip To St George Island and the surrounding area’s

We wake up and Robin(Todd’s Sister) was super excited we are here. She is ready to take us and show us St George island she raves about this area. We agreed to go since we do not know anything about this area and she will be our tour guide for a few weeks. Hop in the car and away we go about 4 miles down the road sitting in the backseat of a car (i have not rode in the backseat of a car in forever) I start getting car sick. Todd noticed and asked David (Robin’s husband) if I could ride upfront because of getting car sick. Of course she can now I am feeling much better. We are riding and Robin and David and just telling us all kind of things about this area apparently St George Island is pretty far away but I could not wait to get there. Along the way we stop and see some good fishing area’s where they go to fish we stop at a cute little rest area right before we hit the island it was right on a small little beach not much sand a lot of rocks. The tide was so low that the boats that were docked were tipping sideways it was so crazy looking.

We get on the island and this is so cute…. I would love to live out here but I bet it is a pretty penny to rent or own a house here. We drove the furthest we could drive on the island one way. There was a campground right off the beach we saw a host maybe we will see about hosting here in the summer who knows. after that we hit the beach it was no the warmest of days so I did not go hop in the water but I was a happy camper with my feet in the white sand, the smell of the salt water in the air, and the sound of the waves crashing.. I never want to leave I love the ocean. I walk down the beach it is cold outside I stick my hand in the water… to my surprise it was not cold if I had my suit I would have been in the water in a heart beat.Spent about an hour on the beach and everyone was hungry so we left on a hunt for some food.

Driving onto the island Todd saw a restaurant a little what looked like a hole in the wall called Bayside burgers. OK so we went in and waited 30 mins before we even got our drinks. The waitress kept walking past us about another 15 mins before she came and took our order after we had told her we were ready to order.Once our order was taken we thought the food would come out quick being there was no on in the place at all but us….NOPE it was about 30 mins before our food came out.. Todd, Robin and I ordered burgers and David ordered the special you would think the food should come quick. We got the food and it was just subpar food it was nothing to write home about OH and if you are looking for quick you will not want to come here we spent 2 hours here and we were the only customers in the place. We should have left but we were all so hungry lol..

It was a great day touring St George Island and the surrounding areas I have a lot of pretty pictures

Leaving On Our Next Journey!!!

On Thursday October 30th we left Campbellsville KY and headed south to Crawfordville, FL to visit Todd’s sister.We get on the road and we are happy initially because we see flat land well so much for the here come the huge F#$%ing hills and mountains. Our truck is sucking up the gas because these huge hills OH NO…. it does not feel like we are getting anywhere which apparently we were not lol  We only went 200 miles on day one, mostly because we were not in a hurry.  We stayed at a campground call Point Mallard in Decatur Alabama. (pics to follow)  it was a real nice place, big wooded sites, a water park, batting cages and a golf course. It was only $27 for full hook ups and are pet friendly.We were all hooked up and ready to relax and Todd decided well hey lets point the dish so we could watch our shows tonight. HAHAHA easier said then done. the site we were in had some tree’s in the way long story short he spent about 3 hours we lined everything up and then would loose it finally he gave up. We went to get a pizza for dinner getting back and looked at our phones to check the time mine said 6:30 Todd’s Said 5:30 uh oh… we are in a different time zone what time is it… Central time we gained an hour woo hoo…. After dinner we relaxed and caught up on some of our DVR shows since Todd could not get the dish pointed lol.. In bed ready to go to sleep We talked about staying a couple of days but we haven't seen my sister in a while and were excited about getting back to Florida.
After getting hooked up we were looking forward to some flat land as we have been in mountainous areas since the beginning of summer, well that didn't happen until southern Alabama and it killed our gas mileage.Right as we get on the road I flip through the radio to find a channel and guess what I find CHRISTMAS MUSIC….. Driving down the road on Halloween listening to Christmas Music how crazy is that lol. We finally got to some flattish land and saw a huge improvement in the mileage.  We also found fuel at one of those times were you need to stop at the next exit or else for $2.68..bonus.OH HEY BIRMINGHAM,AL please fix your damn road (I65 S) sincerely a full-time rver… These roads were horrible shake rattle and roll literally. GEESH I feel like we shook everything in the trailer apart and everything in the truck. We are so glad to get out Birmingham, AL soon after that we see flat land YAHOO>>>>>>> better gas mileage and smoother ride is ahead. It feels like we are moving today the pups are riding well today just sleeping the day away makes for less pee pee stops lol… but the moment they wake you gotta find a pee pee stop IMMEDIATLY lol..We get to FL and could not be happier our last turn onto their road we missed hahah we were looking for a road and it was a driveway we turned into the next road DEAD END and boy it was a small road it took a lot of turns and maneuvers to turn around 10 minutes later we are turned around and we arrived just as it was getting dark and my sister and her husband were great, they had a good spot already waiting for us with electricity and water, we were also able to hook into their satellite with a splitter so we didn't have to line up our dish.



I hurt my wrist and cannot type so updates may come slow for a couple of days, but keep checking back to hear about the dolphins and the encounter with the gator!!!!

Todd's First Post or Oh Crap What did I do To My Truck

So as you may know we are getting ready to leave, first to visit my sister in Tallahassee then to Ft. Lauderdale to sell xmas trees.

Well you may or may not know we tow our Travel trailer with an 1998 dodge 1500 with over 200000 miles on it. Since we are getting ready to drive a total of 1000 miles I thought I would give her a tune up.  Well I have never changed the plugs in this truck so when I started pulling the wires they began to break, well no biggie we just have to find a ride to the parts store to get a set of plug wires.

I get to the last plug and they all have come out really easy although they looked terrible, the last plug was a stubborn SOB, I broke the ceramic and eventually stripped the plug.  I hate to do this but I had to call a mechanic for help, we are getting ready to leave, I need my truck.

About an hour later and a mechanic shows up and comes out with the same tools I was using, I knew this wasn't going to end well.   After he struggled for about 5 minutes he said he needed to go get a different tool.  Long story short the extractor he went to get didn't work either.  I suggested since the ceramic was broke to use my short well 12 sided socket instead of the 6 sided deep well he was using.  It worked, he got it out and put the other one in. (could have done it myself for free)

You would think that would be the end of the story, nope.  He put the wires on in the wrong order, (then left) the truck sputtered and spitted and lurched.  By now its dark and I said forget it I will get the firing order off line and fix it in the morning. 

This morning I went out and checked all the plugs for snugness, made sure the wires were on tight and then found the mistake my $55 an hour mechanic made.  I switched the plug wires and fired her up.  She sounded so pretty, and ran so nice I drove around like a madman making sure the check engine light was not coming back on.

All ended well and we are a day behind (but who cares) and back in packing mode.  I'll tell you something I did not let Amanda know, I was seriously worried we weren't going anywhere. 

Cosmo Is Getting BIG!!

I recently took Cosmo our youngest to the vet to get his toes clipped and I weighed him and I was so surprised to see that he weigh 7.5 lbs he is getting so big. When we got Cosmo he was 2lbs the cutest thing ever I was hoping that he would stay small. Over the past 9 months we have saw many stages of Cosmo. At 8 weeks – 4 months he would sing every time one of us walked in the door it put a huge smile on my face every time he did this. He would also sign if you had his baby it is his favorite toy he has a anxiety attack if he can not find it and squeaked and asked him to sign he would. I have many videos of this and if I ever need something to make me smile or laugh I go watch it. He also had mange during this period we had taken him to the vet because we noticed him loosing his hair. They given us meds and he got better and started growing his hair back. Luckily it did not take long for him to get his hair back poor baby. From 4-6 months we had a stage of chewing shoes OK and if anyone knows me I have a shoe addictions and he chewed many of my favorite shoes and yes I shed a few tears but at the same time he was just so cute. From 6months-NOW he has grown so much he still has the attachment to his baby and it is the cutest thing ever this is his 3rd baby though. He loves to ear the ears, eyes, legs, hands off the baby and pull the stuffing out. I have sewed all the previous babies but he pulls the sewed part apart and pulls the stuffing out. Luckily this baby is cheap at Wal-mart I should just buy all of them and keep back up on hand he shreds a baby within 3 months lol. This is kind of gross LMAO but my hubby leaves his sandals on the floor and Cosmo likes to pee in them HAHAHA I keep telling him not to leave them on the floor. I love watching him grow he will turn 1 in January I excited to see if he grows anymore.
This is Cosmo when we fist got him. He has a heart on his side the brown marking.
This was when Cosmo had mange you can see the thinning hair. Thank goodness he grew all his hair back.

This is Cosmo as he is getting older

This is Cosmo NOW… You can see how big he has grown

Sammie also went to get her nails clipped she is a little princess she stayed the size we thought she would considering when we got her she was 1 lb 1oz she however did loose 5 oz since we were in VA. I am working on getting her back up to 5 lbs because I can not give her Trifexis if she is not 5 lbs at least you are not recommended to and I will not give it to her unless she is. I have been giving her wet food the good stuff to try to plump her little butt up. The other 2 dogs are not allowed to have wet food because their stomachs to not digest it well and the get sick. It is funny how the smallest dog we have is a garbage disposal she will try to eat anything you give her and has not problem with it and the other 2 can not ever eat rice and chicken without having an upset tummy. We do buy the best of the best dry food no grains no filler I pay big bucks so they still have the best food to eat.