Video & Photo Session, Gulf Shores, & Shrimp Festival

As many of you know, my husband I traveled to Mississippi to be here when my mother had heart surgery scheduled for this past Thursday. The surgery has been postponed and we're waiting to see if the doctors will do it this week. In the meantime we are just spending time with my family. Friday afternoon we took a little time to take some photos of my brothers race car. Lewis took some video while were were there, too. This is just a bit of what was happening.

 

On Saturday, we went to Gulf Shores to the Shrimp Festival.  I didn't take a lot of photos there, but I did take a few on the beach.

Greek Salad.  I'm not sure what all was in it, but it looked delicious.  If we had stayed longer, this would have been my second lunch.

I enjoyed walking in the crowd, listening to the amateur talent on stage in the background, and getting ideas for projects while moving through the Arts & Crafts and Fine Arts booths. But the beach and bit of fresh gulf air is always relaxing and the best part of any trip to the beach.

Delmarva Chicken Festival

I've lived in the chicken capital of the world (well, probably not really) for 6 years and this is the first year I've gone to the Chicken Festival.  This year (it is held in a different location throughout the Delmarva area each year) it is at the DSU (Delaware State University) campus and will continue through tomorrow.  

We went to the Home Show first and then the Craft Show.  Both were pretty disappointing.  I guess I was just expecting more. We went to see the baby chicks in the Chicken display building.  After that was the petting zoo.  It was intended for children, I'm sure, but it was my favorite part.  There was a goat that wanted nothing more than for me to stand there and scratch her behind her ears.

There was chicken for everyone: fried chicken (of course!), barbecue chicken, Jamaican jerk chicken, chicken on a stick, and more.

The Giant Fry Pan was a big hit for everyone.  It's not the biggest in the world.  Or even the country.  But it's still pretty big.  And the chicken coming out of it is delicious!  We were there a little before 4:00 pm and the wait was long.  We had to wait for a batch to come out of the Giant Fry Pan.  After waiting in the hot sun for the chicken, all I wanted to do was go home to eat it.  So we did.