Feb 7th to 9th - Mexico Beach FL

Feb 7th - Sat - Mexico Beach
Haircut and bath for Dolly this morning - still fighting fleas. Then we joined Billy & Lauri for lunch at a restaurant here in Mexico Beach. The recommended Reuben sandwich was nothing exceptional but the waitress apologized for the slow kitchen with a free pitcher of beer and we were sitting outside in the sun so how bad could it be? We wandered along a stretch of little shops and an Ace Hardware where I got some flea spray for carpets and furniture.
When we returned, we put Dolly in the truck and I sprayed the carpets. We sat outside and played Sequence with Billy & Lauri while the sprayed areas dried.
After dinner we went to play card bingo but it turned out that Lauri was misinformed and nothing was going on. So back into our place where we taught B & L a dice game.

Feb 8th - Sun - Mexico Beach
There is a small laundry room here and only 2 washers & dryers are working. I washed 2 loads, threw them in the dryers and put in two more loads of wash before I discovered that one of the dryers was not heating. I spoke to the manager, got my money back and since the load was mostly shirts, hung them on hangers on a line. Then we took the other 2 loads of washed clothes into a laundromat in town to dry. When the laundry was done, we joine Billy & Lauri at the beach.
There is a very long, curved stretch of sandy beach in Mexico Beach. The sand is very fine and soft, lovely to walk on. It was not hot but pleasant to sit, walk and watch water & birds. We drove through town and walked out on a pier where there were several fishermen catching lots of fish.
It seems that it is much less humid here than other parts of Florida but the shirts hanging on the line were not dry when we got back so I put up the rod in the shower to finish drying them.

Feb 9th - Mon - Mexico Beach
Billy & Lauri asked us to join them on a grocery shopping trip to Panama City so we left about 10:30. After shopping, we looked for a place for lunch and decided to check out a place called “Po Folks” (Poor Folks). You could get fried green tomatoes, fried greens, hush puppies, catfish and other “southern” foods. We all went for a lunch special with fried chicken, chicken fried steak, biscuit, gravy & 2 vegetable sides. Way too much food and an overload of grease but good. All this for $5.99.
We drove through historic downtown Panama City - not impressive unless you are into antiques - and then headed back. We put away groceries, packed up some stuff in preparation for leaving tomorrow and went for a bike ride all around the park. Then, since no one was making dinner, Billy & Lauri came over to play some more Sequence. We are all getting better at playing and some games go on for a long time.