Friday, May 6, 2011
Cheri May-6-11
9:53 PM | 
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Gay spent the early morning hours washing off all the love bugs from the front of the truck & 5th wheel. I began getting things put away inside. It was 11am before we got on the road, but that’s ok, we are not in a hurry to get anywhere.
Traffic was light and by 1pm we were ready to stop for lunch. I had salads all prepared so we pulled into a rest area and ate at one of their picnic table there.
We only had to go 187 miles today to reach Elberta, Al. We have friends there we used to ride motorcycle with back in WI. We had been trying to call them for the last 2 days and got no answer.
We followed the GPS directions and it got us on the wrong road to our campground. We were lucky to find a place to turn around and back on track again. After we checked in at the Lazy Acres Campground and got set up we headed for Clay & Joyce’s. We found them home, had a nice visit, and then took them out for dinner.
I had picked up information on an eating place in Foley, about 10 miles from their place, called the Gift Horse. What a fabulous place.
Jackie McLeod and her husband purchased this historic building in 1984 and took 3 or 4 months to renovate it. Jackie had dreamed of owning her own restaurant, but it must be a big building with tall ceilings to accommodate large chandeliers.
The outside entrance of the building was all decorated with mesh and ribbons. What a welcome.
The walls and ceilings were stripped of layers of paint, down to the beautiful beaded pine and were coated with 150 coats of polyurethane. It was beautiful. The entrance doors were leaded glass. The two stain glassed windows came from an old spaghetti factory in New Orleans. There was a crystal chandelier in the foyer and 4 large brass chandeliers that highlight the main dining room. The art work was painted between 1900 and 1910, by a woman who was commissioned to do the painting for the Queen Mary.
There was a 28 ft. banquet table that Jackie bought in New Orleans. Records show that this table was in the White House at one time. The table holds 15 to 20 salads, meat dishes, vegetables, fried biscuits & soups. They have some to those real southern dishes like apple cheese and praline sweet potatoes. Of course there was dessert. There were white table clothes on all the tables and that slow easy music was playing in the background.
For all of our CPCC friends---this is another restaurant we would like to take you all too.
We were back at the 5th wheel to settle in by 7:30pm and making plans to stay here 1more day.
Traffic was light and by 1pm we were ready to stop for lunch. I had salads all prepared so we pulled into a rest area and ate at one of their picnic table there.
We only had to go 187 miles today to reach Elberta, Al. We have friends there we used to ride motorcycle with back in WI. We had been trying to call them for the last 2 days and got no answer.
We followed the GPS directions and it got us on the wrong road to our campground. We were lucky to find a place to turn around and back on track again. After we checked in at the Lazy Acres Campground and got set up we headed for Clay & Joyce’s. We found them home, had a nice visit, and then took them out for dinner.
I had picked up information on an eating place in Foley, about 10 miles from their place, called the Gift Horse. What a fabulous place.
Jackie McLeod and her husband purchased this historic building in 1984 and took 3 or 4 months to renovate it. Jackie had dreamed of owning her own restaurant, but it must be a big building with tall ceilings to accommodate large chandeliers.
The outside entrance of the building was all decorated with mesh and ribbons. What a welcome.
The walls and ceilings were stripped of layers of paint, down to the beautiful beaded pine and were coated with 150 coats of polyurethane. It was beautiful. The entrance doors were leaded glass. The two stain glassed windows came from an old spaghetti factory in New Orleans. There was a crystal chandelier in the foyer and 4 large brass chandeliers that highlight the main dining room. The art work was painted between 1900 and 1910, by a woman who was commissioned to do the painting for the Queen Mary.
There was a 28 ft. banquet table that Jackie bought in New Orleans. Records show that this table was in the White House at one time. The table holds 15 to 20 salads, meat dishes, vegetables, fried biscuits & soups. They have some to those real southern dishes like apple cheese and praline sweet potatoes. Of course there was dessert. There were white table clothes on all the tables and that slow easy music was playing in the background.
For all of our CPCC friends---this is another restaurant we would like to take you all too.
We were back at the 5th wheel to settle in by 7:30pm and making plans to stay here 1more day.
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