After the deluge of last night and the pounding of the rain on the roof we finished our ark so we are ready now. We decided to take a ride into Apalachicola for the morning to look in some of the shops and see if there was anything we missed on our first couple of trips. We got there about 10:30 and started walking around looking in some of the quaint little gift shops and clothing stores. My my quite expensive especially the clothing stores. We did find an old time soda fountain and went in a yes it was just like walking into yesteryear with the sit down bar with the swivel stools and the ice cream freezers behind it. They had the old seltzer spritzers that they use to make sodas and it really was nice to see. Well we couldn't leave without having something so Mom had a strawberry ice cream soda and I had a chocolate milk shake and they both were delicious. After having those we walked around awhile and left to go back to the RV. For dinner we came back into Apalachicola for dinner at the Owl Cafe one of the top voted restaurants in Florida. We met Lois the young lady we met caching and had dinner with her. She is a full time reporter for the local Apalachicola, Eastpoint, Lanark newspaper and has her own exterminating business and teaches some classes at the local community college. She has a Masters and PHD from Virginia Tech and is a entomologist. She really filled us in on a lot of the local color and happenings and she knew everyone that came into the restaurant it seemed. I had great fried Apalachicola oysters and Mom had a great salad and soup combo. The oysters were simply scrumptious. She is such a nice person, very friendly and is a very hard worker, we don't know when she has time to cache but she does fit it all in very nicely. After dinner we went back to the RV and it was bedtime. Well time to say till tomorrow and we love and miss you all.
Picture List:1-3 Piddlers Alley a small shop along Main Stret with lots of artsy craftsy things, 4 Painting in a window in one of the shops, 5 Old washing machine being used as a planter, 6 Carving in front of the soda fountain, 7 & 8 the old time soda fountain.
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