Mississippi, Bay St. Louis - Saturday, November 16, 2013 - Hollywood Casino Show

We still haven’t found out when our refrigerator part will be in so we extended our stay here.  We were scheduled to leave in the morning, but now we are going to wait to leave on Wednesday.  That should put us into Gulf Shores on the 20^th or 21^st.  We are scheduled to meet up with some friends in Gulf Shores so we don’t want to be late for that.

Its overcast today and misting rain every once in a while.  The temperatures are in the mid-70s, but it doesn’t feel as nice as it does when the sun is shining.  I wanted to take some sandwiches with us to the beach in Waveland to have lunch.  We did, but it was really kind of cool to be spending much time on the beach, the breeze blowing across the water lowered the temperature quite a bit.

It was so overcast the pictures don’t show much.

 

 

This guy was the only one at the beach besides us.

 

 

On the way back home we stopped for a few groceries to go with our current pantry items so we could still cook at home instead of going out to eat.  Lots of canned soup instead of the homemade versions, but I’m sure we’ll get by.  Two days and we are already tired of going to the buffet at the casino.

Tonight we went to the casino for a show – Micky Dolenz.  Remember him from the 1960’s rock band The Monkees?  He still puts on a pretty good show.  Nice trip down memory lane.

Mississippi, Bay St. Louis - Friday, November 8, 2013 - Hollywood Casino RV Park

We are surrounded by Louisiana State fans getting together for the big game with Alabama this weekend.  Lots of LSU flags flying and big stuffed tigers on dashboards.  These folks really went all out, their RV is painted in LSU colors.

 

We walked around the park today and saw them setting up for a big hog roast.  They were putting up a windbreak on one side of the large outdoor pavilion here so they can set up their big screen tomorrow night.  I have a feeling these people really know how to party.

Yesterday morning I was so excited to see this little guy – a bluebird.  I haven’t seen a bluebird since we left North Vernon, IN in 2011.  In Indiana we saw a lot of blue jays but bluebirds were rare.  The woods on our property was home to a few bluebirds and I always enjoyed watching them.

 

 

We put up our flags for the Veteran’s Day weekend.  On Monday we plan on going to the nearby town of Waveland that has a Veteran’s memorial on a pier that goes out into the Gulf of Mexico.  Tomorrow we are going into Bay St. Louis for their “Second Saturday” celebration.  The last couple of days we haven’t been out doing too much, it’s been really windy and the temperature was down to 60!  Tomorrow is supposed to be back in the 70’s.

 

 

We walked up to the marina that is on site here, some pretty good sized boats there.

This picture shows the marina at the front and on beyond the tree line you can see the bay.

We went into the casino to get our players club cards and stopped at the quarter slots for a few minutes.  I put in $20 and came back home with $80, wish my luck was always like that.

Mississippi, Bay St. Louis - Wednesday, November 6, 2013 - Hollywwod Casino RV Park

Today was a travel day.  Heading to Bay St. Louis, Mississippi to stay at the Hollywood Casino RV Park.

A final shot of sugar cane in Louisiana.  I thought the flag looked very impressive.

This shot was taken on the move out my side window, so it’s kind of blurry.  We haven’t had much opportunity to see the sugar cane being harvested so I wanted to try to get a shot of it.

This is a sugar processing plant, I think it said Colonial Sugar.  My picture is of the older building on site since that is what I find interesting.  There is a much larger part that is much more modernized.

More of I-10 going through the swamps.

We crossed just a small part of Lake Pontchartrain.  There was water as far as you could see on both sides of the road.  My picture doesn’t do it justice, it was pretty overcast so it’s hard to see where the sky ends and the water begins – very amazing.  There was a pretty good breeze blowing, there were plenty of whitecaps on the water.

I’m just in awe of how anyone could build roads, railroads and utility towers in all of this water.  And, I’m sure the amount of traffic traveling on these roads is much greater than it was when the road was built.

The RV park is along a small bayou of Bay St. Louis

With lots of trees covered in Spanish moss.

This is an up close look at the moss.

Here we are.  We’ll be here just hanging out for the next 10 days.  We are really close to the Gulf of Mexico and I think Bay St. Louis might have some interesting things to see downtown, so I’m sure we’ll find plenty to do.