Hair Raising: Visit to see Dada

Grammy and G-Paw joined the girls and I for a trip down to Ocean Springs, MS to visit Dada. He has been there for two weeks and will be coming home this weekend after 3 weeks. We had a really good visit that started out with a rough night of ear aches and potty troubles, but we ended up being rested and got to do a lot of things. The girls were really glad to see their Dada, and can't wait for him to get home. We went to the outlet mall on Saturday. We ate lunch at the BlowFly Inn, which was delicious and reasonably priced, especially the lunch menu! We ate at Wasabi Hibachi Grill for supper. Chloe got scared of the fire and neither one of the girls ate much, but the rest of us adults enjoyed the food and the show! Sunday we went to Sicily's Italian Buffet for lunch. It was a mad house, because it was directly on the parade route, but it was really yummy! After lunch was the Mardi Gras parade. Most of the time I was like, "I can't believe I brought my children to this", and the other half thought it was pretty fun. Lots of toys, beads, cups, and other doodads were collected. We did a little more shopping and got a snack from Sonic before making a quick stop for pictures at the beach, which did not go well. Hopefully Aunt Marley can do some photoshopping. After that, we headed back to the hotel and sent the guys out for shrimp po boys from Mike's. Late Monday morning we ate at IHOP and then headed home. All in all, it was well worth the trouble of driving 5 hours down there!