lunch-14 miles-2 large alligators-6 babies

today we met up with some friends from back home...jim & tish kane who live in cortland and jim was th former pastor of cousin bonnie church and married my niece sarah...

anyway we had had dinner with them at cousin bonnie back in nov/dec and they knew were were going to be in the area around thed time they might be here..so they made contact via e-mail and the rest if history...

we met at lambert's for lunch ads they had never been there and were told that it is the place to go..we had been there with lar and mem but decided to go again...brought home most of our meals...if you don't remember it is the home of the throwed rolls which they really do throw..

after which lar and i went to the state park and did a 14 mile bike ride and hope i rode off some of the calories i had just put on...along the way we saw 2 adult alligators who were our sunning themselves and also each had some babies..one had a couple of the babies on her back..the other one the babies were in the water and she was on shore enjoying the sun...

tomorrow we are off to a mardi gras parade in gulf shores...jim and tish have never been to one and this one is a family parade as it is 10am..we went to this parade several yrs ago when we were here with caroline and tony...so i'll bring a bag to fill up wiht goodies....