Throwed Off

This past weekend, Ginny had a great opportunity to present a portion of her thesis at the SEACSM conference in Jacksonville, FL. She created a poster and displayed it for a few hours while others attending the conference came and asked her questions about it. She was a bit nervous at first but then really enjoyed it.

We took the opportunity to take this trip as a little pre-Valentine's getaway. We knew with school and work, Valentine's Day would not be as special as we would like. We left Thursday morning and arrived later that night. Kaylor was a trooper and only became fussy the last couple of hours of the trip. It's the longest we've required her to be in the car seat. I rode in the back with her for the last hour or so keeping her plug in her mouth because it was the only way she would sleep.

On the way there, we stopped at BabiesRUs to get a baby harness. We ended up with the Mamas and Papas Morph. We were going to get one anyway before this weekend of Mardi Gras parades but now we are very glad we got it earlier, especially since we may not be going to any parades; pending weather. We absolutely love it and we got an excellent deal on it because it was marked incorrectly(more than half off). Kaylor loves it too. We strapped her in quite a bit over the trip. She sleeps in it quite comfortably. We even had a guy stop us and ask us about it because it looked so comfortable for baby and parent. We highly recommend it.

We were able to meet up with a friend from Ginny's high school days, Monica and her husband Brent. The drove a few minutes to meet us for sushi at Jacksonville Landing. They are a great couple and too bad we don't live closer.

We also are incredibly obsessed with custard, if you didn't know. And what, might you ask, did we do for a fun adventure? But of course, we found Shakes, a frozen custard establishment. It was about 25 miles away but took us more than an hour to get there. This actually reminds me of something Brent said at dinner, "we don't measure distance here by miles but by time." Ginny told me this about California as well. But the custard was well worth it.

The conference ended Saturday but we just chilled another night

and left Sunday morning for the trip back. We stopped at a preplanned destination for Slupper (a late lunch early dinner) at Lambert's Cafe, home of the throwed rolls. It is amazing. I first visited the restaurant while on my mission in Missouri but we saw a sign for one in Foley, AL and had to go. Ginny (and Kaylor) had never been so we took a "little" detour and made our way there. The food is traditional and delicious. In addition to your meal, servers bring around extra sides like fried okra and smothered potatoes that you can munch on for the remainder of the evening. Also, if you put your hand up, a delicious, fluffy, heavenly and warm roll is thrown to you. We definitely will be going again.

On the way back, Kaylor was a bit done with the car seat idea and wasn't overly patient with us. At one point, Ginny even leaned over the car seat to, uh, soothe Kaylor so she would go to sleep. We were all ready to get back home.