Hey everyone!
In this post I'm going to tell you about how I spend my labor day weekend. In America you have a day off on the 2nd of septembre, because of Labor day. But I didn't go to school on friday either :p. So we could leave earlier, and spend more time at the beach. We left around 10am and drove on several routes to Mobile, Alabama. We had to drive through Alabama to get in Perdido Key, Florida. In Mobile we stopped to have lunch at a cool beach restaurant. I had a seafood soup and fried green tomatoes!(they fry everything in America! :D) After that we went to visit USS Alabama, a battleship that retired years ago and serviced mostly in the fifties in places like Pearl Harbor. It was pretty impressive and interesting to see how people lived on a ship like that for I don't know how many months. We've also seen battle aircrafts and a submarine, which was also interesting. After that we continued our journey to Perdido Key. We arrived around 6pm. After we got settled in and I stopped freaking out about the condo (It's huge and very beautiful), we ordered some food. A condo is a whole floor of a story building that serves as a 'little' house. We also walked on the beach, but walking turned into swimming with my clothes and making Jane Bradley and Beckam more confident with the ocean water (which worked!). Lacey and Brad told they had never seen Jane Bradley that confident! :D After a while also Lacey's parents arrived. They are the actual owners of the condo and are really sweet! I and Jane Bradley shared a room that had a beautiful view over the bay. 3 of the 4 walls were mainly windows, so we were surrounded by the beauty of the bay. Saturday morning we got up early and we went to the balcony that looks over the Gulf of Mexico. It was a very calm and clear morning, that we could see dolphins under water, even though we were on the 15th floor. Marguerite (Lacey's mom) made our breakfast, which consisted of bacon, egg and cookies. After breakfast we did what everyone does when they're at the beach! Swimming, sunbathing, making sandcastles,... For Lunch we had Taco's, while football was on tv :p. Football season just started and every saturday there are a lot of games all day long. For dinner we went to Mguires, an Irish pub. It's ceilings is filled with pasted 1 dollars! It's really funny, because the person who'll one day take all those layers of will be rich! Dinner was really good! As appetizer we had honey bread with butter and after that I got beef, cabbage, and carrots! Sunday morning we had pancakes (not crepes!). American pancakes are much more smaller but have a similar taste. After that we descended to the beach again. And before lunch I facetimed my family, which I've been longing for, since I didn't speak to them in Chicago. I loved catching up with them, because how much I love it here I'm still starting to miss them! For lunch we had something similar to 'Vol au vont', so a chicken dish ;). Around 4:30pm we had already left for dinner, because we went to a place, called 'LuLu's' that has a lot of more things to do except for a restaurant, that has a long wait! So we did some shopping at the LuLu's shop. I bought a pretty large shirt, but that's how a lot of people wear shirts here :p. Actually mine still had small as it's size. I also did a climbing attraction, and a hurricane attraction with Beckam and Jane Bradley, which is in a small cabinet where you stand in waiting for the air to blow harder and harder. Really funny! When we got a table we had tortilla's, with melted cheese and a lot of vegetables baked in it, as appetizer. This was really good! After we got back around 9pm and the kids went to bed, I, Brad and John went crabbing! We took a bucket, nets and flashlights! We caught 3 crabs, and I caught one of them! Monday morning we had a early morning swim, because we would leave early to get back home! I had an awesome weekend and once again I thank my host family for everything they've done for me! http://instagram.com/p/drXPovtCXs/ A picture with the view of Jane Bradley's and my room! http://instagram.com/p/ds81ZLtCaF/ A picture made at Mguire's while we were waiting for a table! You can see Jane Bradley and Lacey in it. http://instagram.com/p/dvZ3TvNCcv/ Here you can see Jane Bradley, Beckam and Marguerite at LuLu's! xoxo Suzanna PS: I'll try to put the non-instagram pictures on by tomorrow! ;)
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