Home! The End of January

 Can you believe it is the last weekend of January and the first weekend of February?  This month has flown by!  And it is Friday Fave Fives again, the Fifth Fave Fives this month.  Here are my faves for this week in backwards form.

1.  The Professor and I are home.  We arrived safely from Gulf Shores yesterday afternoon.  The drive on Wednesday was long.  Yesterday's drive through the Smoky Mountains was shorter and absolutely beautiful. I am thankful for our wonderful trip and also thankful that we are home.

2.  On the last night we were at the Gulf of Mexico, we walked three and a half miles on the beach just at sunset.  It was gorgeous.  (You may be wondering why there are no photos attached... my computer is not talking to my camera again.  Hopefully, I can figure this out and post pictures later.)

3.  The Professor loves museums.  We spent almost a whole day touring the USS Alabama Battleship Museum in Mobile.  I enjoyed it, too, but I loved watching how engrossed he was in all the exhibits.

4.  One day, we drove west along a sand spit to Fort Morgan.  It was a very windy day and we braved the winds, gusts and rain and walked all around the ruins of this fort on the western edge of the peninsula protecting Mobile Bay.  Yes, we are history nerds.

5.  Maybe the best evening we had at Gulf Shores was spent in Pensacola, Florida.  We met my cousin (actually my cousin's son) and his mom for dinner.  This is only the second time I have spent time with him, and we enjoyed our visit so much.  He's a wonderful young man.  When we had a bit of a car issue, he jumped right in (under) and fixed it.  I am so thankful that I have developed this contact with him.

Bonus:  while we were gone, our area got slammed with twelve inches of snow.  Before we returned, our grandson Warrior Boy came over and cleared our driveway and front porch.  

Now I am home and I am happy to be snuggled up in warm blankets.