Saturday, we woke to very foggy and overcast skies. Looking out from our balcony you can no longer see the beach which is only about 200 yards away. They are calling for a chance of rain today and it is very windy. By looking at the weather channel, most of the heavy rain has missed us and is going across Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee.
Today, we head over to Mobile to tour the battleship USS Alabama memorial. At the memorial, we went on an extensive tour of the battleship, going up and down more deck levels than I’ve ever been able to tour on a warship before. After the battleship we toured their air hanger and finished the tour by visiting a World War II submarine named the USS DRUM which went into service November of 1941. That makes two WWII submarines in the last year that I’ve toured that were in service in 1941 and made it through the war. I didn’t realize any were left. Too bad they couldn’t have saved the USS Enterprise.
The Alabama tour took most of the day and we left by late afternoon looking for a place to eat in Mobile and also a place to watch the Kentucky Derby. It was getting close to Derby so we found an O’Charley’s and sat at the bar to watch the race. Afterwards, we went to a restaurant on the causeway down from the Alabama memorial for dinner. I remembered this place from when I was last down here back in 2004 however the restaurant I visited closed after Katrina and a new one had occupied the building and was now called “The Original Oyster House”. By the number of cars in the parking lot it looked like it would be another good one and it did not disappoint. After dinner, we did the 50 minute drive back to Pensacola and called it a night.
Though it was very, very windy during the day it never did rain on us. Another great day.
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